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GRAYPAINT

The Smoothest Art
Possible

Turbo Pascal for the Mac:

incredibly fast and fully integrated!

orland’s new Turbo Pascal for the
Mae'“ is so incredibly fast that it can
compile 1,420 lines of source code in
the 7.1 seconds it took you to read
this sentence.

And reading the rest of this page
takes about 5 minutes, which is plenty
of time for Turbo Pascal for the Mac
to compile at least 60,000 lines of
source code!

Utrbo Pascal for the Max: does both
Windows and “Units”

The separate compilation of routines
offered by Turbo Pascal for the Mao creates
modules called “Units’-which can be
linked to any Turbo Pascal* program. This
"modular pathway 55 gives you "pieces"
which can then be integrated Into larger
programs. (You build the “pieces" once, and
you know they work, so you can use them
again without having to recompile.) The
immediate benefits of this technique are
a more efficient use of memory and a
reduction in the time it takes to develop
large programs. (What you need to run
Turbo Pascal for the Mao Is 256K min-
Unum-or half a Pat Mac, 1 drive, and the
ability to handle astonishing speed)

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Turbo Pascal for the Mac is so
compatible with Lisa* that they
should be hving together

Routines from Usa Pascal" Macintosh
Programmer’s Workshop Pascal, and Inside
Macintosh can be complied and run with
only the subtlest changes. Turbo Pascal
for the Mac is also compatible with the
Hierarchical File System of the Macintosh"
(You can define default volume and folder
names for the names used In compiler
direcUves.) Compatibility Is also familiarity,
and you! fed right at home with Turbo
Pascal for the Mac because it fits neatly
Into every aspect of the Macintosh envi¬
ronment The pull-down menus are there,
along with dialog boxes to guide you in
making choices and picking options.

Turbo Pascal for the Mac cranks out
more than 12,000 lines a minute

Better Than IZflCQ lines per minute of
compiled source code race out of Turbo
Pascal for the Mac, There Is definitely “Mo
Waiting" And none of the "stop/start”
compiling delays that afflict 8ome of the
software programs that we're not mention¬
ing here, (They can take 10 minutes to do
what Turbo Pascal for the Mac can do in
10 seconds!)

You don’t spend a lot of up-front time
learning to use Turbo Pascal for the Mac. It's
as ea^y as it is /ast-whlch is not to say that
ids oversimplified or written for people who
have recently learned to walk erect Instead,
ids electronic proof that sophistication and
complication don’t need to go hand-in-hand.

In all software, there’s the Hard Way,
the Wrong Way, the Weird Way, the Ho Way,,
and the Borland Way. Welcome to the
Borland Wayl

How to walk and chew gum!

Turbo Pascal for the Mac lets you do up to
8 different thing s at once . You can have up
to 8 separate programs in memory, work on
one, move on; work on another, move back
-or duck and weave between all 8 at the
same time! And you can do these 8 Easy
Pieces while you mn the compiler. Multiple
editing windows allow you to edit, compile,
and execute each window individually. With
several windows open at the same "irne, you
switch from one open window to another
faster than a cat burglar-and never get
caught. Ids "take the source code and run!"

The 27-Second Guide to Turbo
Pascal for the Mac

■ Compilation speed of more than 12.00D lines
per minute

■ “Unif structure lets you create programs in
modular lorm

■ Multiple editing windows—up to 8 ai once

i • Compilation options include compiling to disk
or memory, or compile and run

B No need to swilch between programs to
compile or run a program

■j Streamlined development and debugging

.. Compatibility with Lisa Pascal and Macintosh
Programmer's Workshop Pascal (with minimal
changes}

a Compatibility wilh Hierarchical Fite System ol
your Mac

j Ability lo deline delauM volume and folder
names used In compiler directives
i Search and change leases in tbe editor
speed up and simplify alteration of routines
i Ability to use all available Macintosh memory
without limit

■ "Units' 1 included lo call all the routines
provided by Macinlosh Toolbox

Clear your desk, Sidekick's here!

Sidekick* brings true desktop man¬
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Mac Now you can automatically dial
phone numbers, tog on to bulletin boards,
schedule appointments, jot down notes.

calculate business expenses—and
more—white running alt your other Mac
software Once you get SideKick yoult
wonder how you ever did without it!

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Introducing Reflex for the Mac,
0t\ Borland’s remarkable
new relational database

B

ecause it is a truly relational
database, Reflex for the Mao’” lets
you get your various acts together.
Lets you connect "A" to “B" to “C,"
or “Dog” to “Cat" to "Right.” Or
whatever links and connections
you need to make and need to see,
It’s a simple spreadsheet-style
series of electronic and visual cross-
references. There’s a dear connec¬
tion (which you first make by
drawing it on-screen) between
“Client’’—“Matter”-“Attorney”—
“Time Sheet”—“Expenses" and
“Bill.” Or between “Slow Driver
in Left-Hand Lane”-"Mile-long
Traffic Jam" and "Shot from
Behind.” It’s all relational.

Designed to make the
most of your Mac's visual
talents, Reflex for the Mac
lets you place fields and
pictures wherever you want
them on the page—and
print them that way with
your Report Generator.

Afunnywaytowe
Reflex for the Mac
Let's say you have to
make a lot of speeches
and you like to tell Jokes,
hut can’t alwayB remember
the right one for the right
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So you use Reflex for the
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that all connect to each
other.

Your “Joke” file eonneetf
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which is split into cate¬
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“Hostile,’’"Dumb,"
“Student" or whatever—
all of which are intercon¬
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Reflex for the Mac lets you
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right audience, right now.

(The serious sides of
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St Really uses the
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VOL 3, NO. 1 January 1987

Cover Illustration by Jim Ludtke

POWER COMPUTING

SECOND ANNUAL EDITORS* CHOICE

AWARDS Mac User picks the best of

the 1986 Macintosh crop, by the

Editim of MacUser ..53

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GETTING PRODUCTIVE What Desktop
Productivity is all about, by Robert R.

Wiggins and Ellen Himme .. 4

DOING MORE IN MEETINGS Use
MORE to impress your boss and
make your colleagues green, by

Michael D , Wesley . 8

INTEGRATED CIRCUS Jazz vs. Micro¬
soft Works — which is best for you.

by Jason Gervich .12

HEAD TO HEAD: EXCEL VS. 1-2-3 A
point by point comparison by The
Seybold Group, by Craig Stinson 18
NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY BASE Us¬
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DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY TIP SHEET
Finally, tile illusive Figure 2 for the

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DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY DIRECTORY
Where to find what you need right
now, by Michael D , Wesley . .30

D E P A R T M _E_ NTS

LETTERS Readers have their say .from
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NEW ON THE MENU Latest updates.

Rumor Manager and more_ ..30

QUICK CLICKS Seven of the best and
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TIP SHEET Mac hints, tips and short¬
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WEST COAST REPORT Behind the

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4MACUS ER JANUARY 1987

5 Object Pascal for the Mac!

And now for the Apple //GS...

TML Pascal and TML Source Code Library!

New TML Pascal v2.0 Language Features

Separate compilation of Units

Object Pascal language features for object-oriented programming
Corn plate support for Lisa Pascal style type casting and qualification
Complete access to all extended SANE operations
Universal parameter types, and much much more**,

DEVELOP TWO COMPILATION MODES

Stand-alone double-clickable applications
with their own icon

Desk accessories that can be installed in the
"apple" menu

Menu, window, control and list definitions,
function keys, etc,

COMPLETE ACCESS TO MAC ROM

Every ROM routine is available exactly as defined
by Inside Macintosh

* Ouickdraw

* Operating System

* Packages

* AppleTalk Local Area Network

* MacinTafk speech synthesis

* SCSI Manager

* Toolbox

* Printing

* Serial Drivers

* 3D Graphics

* List Manager

Compile to relocatable object code (MDS ,ReS files)
Compile to assembly source code with Pascal
source inserted as comments (MDS .Asm files)

FAST AND EFFICIENT

Compile up to 4,000 lines per minute and
up to 5,500 on a RAM disk
Execution benchmarks for Sieve:

TML Pascal v2*0: 5,7 seconds

MPW vl ,0b2: 6,9 seconds

Lightspeed Pascal vl.0: 9.1 seconds

AND THE FUTURE

MC68881 floating point co-processor support
Symbolic Debugging

Floating point operations uses the built in
Standard Apple Numerics Environment (SANE)

Other TML Systems Development Tools

Suggested retail price

Only $99.95

TML Source Code Library $79.95

Database Toolkit $89.95

GrafMDEF

18 source code examples (over 1 Mb on 3 disks)
Complete User Manual documenting each example

Example programs demonstrate how to program.,.

* Print Manager * Standard File Dialog * MacinTalk Speech

* Serial Drivers * Split-scrollable windows * Pop-up Menus

* Menu Definitions * Control Definitions

* Window Definitions - List Definitions

* Function Keys * Desk Accessories

* Complete library of Pascal procedures that allow
you to quickly sort, search and manage your data
to build applications.

* it is a complete and very powerful ISAM package.

* Comes with free source code to several
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* Includes a 80+ page user manual

Mini Edit Source Code Disk $19.95

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Face it. You’re a job hopper.
Constantly skipping from one kind
of crisis to another.

With that in mind, we are pleased
to announce a program that can
change gears as fast as you do:
Microsoft ' Works. A one disk
program which gracefully
integrates the four funda^
mental tools you need at
work:

Word processing, for
writing memos, reports,
presentations.

A database tool, to keep track
of clients, jobs, vendors.

A spreadsheet with charting
abilities, to compute, analyze,
interpret, and then graph anything
to do with finance or numbers.

Finally a communications tool
which lets you get stock quotes,
make travel reservations, do
research, and send reports
across the country, right
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for you to change jobs*

Microsoft Works lets you juggle all
these jobs, move swiftly and easily
between them, while transferring
and combining their information as
you please. Because you do all
these jobs with one, easy to learn,
totally integrated program.

Quick study* Quick change*

The first job is the easiest. Learn¬
ing to use Microsoft Works.

Its a snap.The overall program
and each tool within runs Mac¬
intosh™ style. Which, as you probably
know, is a natural, common sense,
point-at-what-you-want system.

And Microsoft Works is seam¬
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all four tools on screen at once.Jump
instantly from one to another. And
later combine work done in each
part of the program on a single
printed page.

This easy exchange of data
makes jobs go faster and easier.

One practical example being mass

mailings of form letters where you
need to combine names from the
database with text written in the word
processor.

All in all, Microsoft Works is a
superb solution for day to day, get-it-
done problems. An inspiring display
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Beat the clock.

On your
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BIG BROTHER
AND

NEWSPEAK

W ell, it has finally happened — the
Macintosh is being taken more than
just seriously in trade journals and
magazines and by the competition. We
are now in the fourth stage of the
computer's history as reported by some
of the general media and specifically by
IBM PC-oriented journals. The first
stage was "What Is That? Ha, Hah!” the
second stage was "Here Comes A Little
Software," the third stage was “Hey,
Maybe It's Nor A Toy!” and the stage we
are in now is “Just Wait For Big Blue!”

All of this goes to show that when
Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984
they chose their introductory theme with
great foresight. Perhaps 1984 was nor
like 1984, but I have seen some articles
in 1986 that have been pretty close to
the Orwellian fantasy.

Big Brother will surely restore the
material dialectic of the masses to the
proletariat. Or something like that.

THE MINISTRIES OF TRUTH

How often have you read an article on
desktop publishing that did not mention
the Macintosh and the LaserWriter? Or,
an article that mentioned them only
{excuse me) peripherally? Unless all vou
read are the Mac magazines, probably
more times than you would have
thought possible.

They've taken the LaserWriter and
they've tried to turn it into a non person.

Or worse, they Ye tried to turn it into
just the man on the street instead of the
leader of the pack.

These type of articles will obliquely
mention the fact that the Macintosh and
the LaserWriter exist, and that they are
presently the best way to go about
m i c roco n i pu te r ized desktop pu b 1 is h i ng.
But then, these pundits will more than
prophesize, they will prosdetize that the
IBM PC will soon be able to run the
same sort of software and that it can
already access laser-variety printers.
Well, HI believe a lot of things. I even
believed that Scarlett O'Hara could make
a ball gown out of an old pair of drapes
(well, unril I saw a Carol Burnett skit

EDITOR'S DESK

based on that event). But I can't believe
that the IBM PC is ever going to catch
up to the Macintosh in this most impor¬
tant new area of personal computing.

It would take a full redesign of the
IBM PC, operating system and hardware
both. Don't hold your breath.

The Mae just has it all—all the rou¬
tines needed for a desktop publishing
program ro call upon—in ROM. Leav¬
ing aside even the graphic resolution of
the Mac and its crisp black on white
display, such things as windows, menus
and mouse-controlled events are the
backbone of such programs as Page¬
Maker and RcadySetGo.

Gem , GEOS, Windows: All have tried
to copv the Macintosh interface on a
number of different machines. All of
them have failed to some degree or
another to capture the integrity, the
beauty, the depth of the Macintosh de¬
sign.

(Quick parenthetical stoiy you may skip
right over: A possibly apocryphal tale was
related to me that Bill Atkinson was one
dav puzzling over how to make w indows
appear to resize as smoothly as they do.
Eureka! he suddenly thought of the
algorithm and jumped in his ear to drive
to Apple, He woke up many hours later
from a car accident in a hospital bed.
Luckily for the rest of us he was nor only
still alive but even remembered the algo¬
rithm. The moral here is, obviously, if
vou program, don't drive.)

Certainly the IBM PC will be able to
do some sort of desktop publishing. It
mar even be pretty good compared to all
other computers excepting the Mac. But
there's no doubt that the Macintosh and
the LaserWriter will remain at the fore¬
front of this new field.

And not even Big Brother can
change those facts,

CONNECTIONS EVERYWHERE

Desktop publishing is, of course, not
the only area in which the Macintosh is
moving into the Fortune 500 in a big
manner. Super businesses also need com¬
puters that connect. Connect to other
micros. Connect to mainframes. And
Apple is not ncgclecting this aspect of
the tight.

We see programs such as Helix which
allow for mainframe VAX machines to
work with the Mae. There is even a
group of high-level programmers who
meet informally and issue papers on a
project called the “VAXintosh.”

Meanwhile, the SCSI port and such
things as AppleTalk are making Macs
ever easier to hook together.

But the real connection will come

TOP

when Apple, as per John Sculley’s an¬
nounced intentions, comes up with a
way for the Macintosh to run MS-DOS.
We expect that this will happen just
about on the same day any slotted Mac is
announced.

This is important: And not because
the Macintosh will be able to run / -2-3.
Rather, it will allow businesses to up¬
grade to the Macintosh from the IBM
PC without having to sacrifice their data
disks on the altar of obsolescence.

If IBM were smart they'd announce a
fc\\ j ways to connect to the Mac. But
connections hav e never been their forte.
Too bad, for them, because it is the
ability to connect that will decide what
computer system sets tomorrow's stan¬
dard.

SAVE THAT PRICE POINT!

I've been avidly playing a new game
called Smash Hit Racqnetball. As men¬
tioned in our review pages the game is
superb with fantastic animation and
playability. And all for S 14.95.

Y'et many industry people I have spo¬
ken with maintain that the company will
he cutting their own throats on the edge
of that price point. You cannot sell
software so cheaply and succeed, accord¬
ing to these profits of monetary doom.

The argument goes that 1) The con¬
sumer will not perceive the value of an
underpriced package; 2) Vendors will
not be able to make enough profit on
that price point so as to stock the
package; and 3) It's a game and gaming
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am a bona fide Macintosh enthusiast
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Mae Persons to let them in on a business
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FIGURE 2 IS STILL MISSING

n your article “You Can Take It With
You’' (August ’$6), there is mention of
a Figure 2 which contains the pinout for
the RS-232 on a Radio Shack Model
200. As I have both a 200 and a 600
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We do indeed, and Sony to have taken so
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AND FURTHERMORE...

I couldn’t believe your response to the
fundamentalist complaints vou pub¬
lished in vour last issue concerning
artwork in the July issue. Your reply
reminded me of 7-11 ’s response when
the right-wing contingent took Playboy
off their shelves* Since this type of pig¬
headed approach seems to get results, [
have decided to use this tactic myself. To
wit:

Dear Editor:

As a liberated person of the ’80’s I am
deeply disturbed by your illustration of
what are obviously prudes in your July
issue. What’s more, they have very big
heads, much larger than any I’ve ever
seen. This was apparcnrlv done to satisfy
the purient interest of noggin-philiacs.

Therefore I am beginning an immedi¬
ate boycott of your magazine. Later, if I
can get bus fare to Connecticut together,

1 will picket your offices and homes. If
vou are as scared as I would like you to
be, you will immediately direct vour art
department to run nothing but pictures
of nudes and Macintoshes with the plas¬
tic case removed. Then, and only then,
will I and my nationwide organization
(of two) resume buying and using Mac-
User.

Jokes aside, I want to see the best
work of your art department, since they
are the L>est in the biz. Don’t muzzle
them to satisfv a few disturbed readers.
Chris Heilman

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lished some sort of index which lists
information concerning products, tips,
etc,, and what issues they are located in. I
find it extremely time-consuming and
annoying to have to search through all
mv old MacUser copies to find one article
or piece of information,

M ATI HEW SC.1 EViUKLER
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NO APPLAUSE FOR CLAPP

T oo bad. Doug Clapp. Sentence frag¬
ments—choppy thoughts. Idea: stop
using Madison Avenue trash as a style
guide. Another: try Doug’s Word Tools
on “What’s Hot—What’s Not” article
(October ’861. Fear: Word Tools thinks
“W.FL—W,N.” is the best thing ever
written. Ugh, No train of. , , thought.
No focus. Weak material? Lousy style.
Care J, Maixson

MI LO PARK, CA

Y ou explain to irate letter writers that
July issue’s use of cartoon females
couldn’t he sexist because the art depart¬
ment is all female. Rut in the very issue
you’re saying this in, the “What’s Hot —-
What’s Not” (October’86) article illus¬
tration has five male, no female hands
going thumbs up and thumbs down.

Meanwhile, the article was terrible.
Dong Clapp is trying to be cure and/or
profound. What he wrote was arch and
obscure. Whatever information lie had
was buried in sophomoric gesture.

Clapp seems very knowledgeable. Let
him relax, and as they say, “let the
material speak for itself" And let him
omit paragraphs like, “The great. The
good. The bad. The hot. The not. The
cool. The cold and wicked. The unsung.”
The vuk.

MacUser really has been the best of the
ct) m p 11 te r i n agazincs—gotxi g ra ph i cs,
well written and edited, Hope October
was an anomaly and not a sign of things
to come.

Judy Seigfx

NEW YORK, NY

D oug Clapp deserved Mac enthusiasts’
respect for his book Macintosh! The
latest article lie has written for AlacUser,
however, is m the style of a poor man’s
Mickey Spillane, but much sloppier,
more arrogant and flippant. In “What’s
Hot—What’s Not" he said in three pages
what could have been said in a para¬
graph. As a matter of fact, all of the
information I got from it was in the two
picture captions. What a disappoint¬
ment. Sorry, 1 can’t take him any more.
Nor Dvorak: Anton, yes; John, no.
There are thousands of users like my¬
self with feet planted on firm ground
who need good, solid information, facts
and figures. We don’t look for cloud
nine, spaced-out sarcasm or gurus.

Jay Rowe

RANDALLSEOVVN. Ml)

R e: “What’s Hot—What’s Not” by
Doug Clapp in your October 1986
issue. What is definitely not hoc is vapor-

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I ordered Word Tools in June from a
reputable Mac mail order house that
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catalogue, complete with photo of the
actual (?) product. It's nearly October as
I write this and my software is definitely
not in the mail.

Word is, “It’s not released vet. 11
Definitely not hot. Et tu, Mr* Clapp?
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Utiom respond to their perceptions of
what their market demands, I want you
to know that if 1 perceive that you have
submitted to censorship by the feminist
thought police, I intend ro cancel my
subscription.

By the way, Ld regret doing so. Of the
Mae magazines IYe seen, yours delivers
the most useful information tor the mon¬
ey.

Nelson Lund

FALLS CHURCH, VA

We have no plans to cither submit to
censorship by anyone , or to impose it on
anyone. if you have any doubts, you can ask
our lawyers how much of their (paid for)
advice we take —SB

FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING

1 11 a vc never been moved to write to an
editor before. Even though there have
been many rimes when world events and
other important issues have tempted me.
However, Neil Shapiro's editorial in
MacUscr concerning the flat Mae (Octo¬
ber *86) moved me.

[ agree with you whole-heartedly that
a Hat-top Mac is badly needed. At our
office we have a minicomputer and sev¬
eral personal computers. The manage¬
ment would not believe that the Mae is
different and can be much more produc¬
tive. So I bad ro resort to bLiving a Mac
myself and bringing it (and the Image-
Writer!) to the office everv dav and
taking it home every night. The packing
and unpacking are down to 15 minutes
now. But I will be second in line (after
you) to buy a flat-top version if, when,
and ever Apple wises up. 1 have always
wondered how imnv people there are
like me who commute with their Mac
every day? I am doing it because I have
found it to be indtspcmiblc; I feel lost
without my mouse. Thank you feu-
speaking out.

Eric; S. Lee

SANTA ANA, CA

24MACUSER JANUARY 19 8 7

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SPELLSWELL BETTER

Y our interesting article on spelling
checkers (Oct, '86) didn't mention that
the program's publisher, Creighton De¬
velopment, has produced a utility pro¬
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SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE SEA

E very new issue of MacUser fills me
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Mac users watch the software available to
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With all the new Apple com¬
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ing up a freebie in print. Look
for the Visa ad with PepsiCola’s
president Roger Enrico. It fea¬
tures a tropical outdoor setting,
Enrico's new book, a can of
Pepsi and a Mac. Despite the
iact that Visa’s ad agency is the
same as Apple's — BBD&O —
the Mac wasn’t part of the initial
design. IPs legit, though; Enrico
says he always takes his Mac
along when he travels — even
on vacation. Nice placement,
too. Right in the middle of the
picture. You can’t miss it. — LK

TALES OF WORD PROCESSING I

The much talked about, long-
awaited MacAiilkor word pro¬
cessor (we’re talking about the
one from England, not the one
from California that has recently
been released as WriteNow)
should finally come to market.

On its way, it has had several
name changes and some fairly
significant functional changes.

At various times, it’s been called
MacAiUkor (that's the name it’s
sold under in England, the land
of its birth) and LaserQuilL
There were apparently trade¬
mark problems in the United
States even with a name like
LaserQuill. It’s now r going to be
called Laser Author, a name the
distributors say is final

This program breaks some
new r ground in integrating ad¬
vanced technical word process¬
ing and simple page layout. It
promises to be a superb report
generator — a tool that many
managers have been crying out
for. The very ambitious program
design of Laser Author has led
to some teething problems, but
the final few have been worked
out during the last few weeks by
developer Mike Glover and his
team in England. For current
information, you should contact
the U.S + distributor, Firebird Li¬
censees, Inc., PO Box 49, Ram¬
sey, NJ 07446. Their phone num¬
ber is (201) 444-5700. Firebird is
a subsidiary of the giant British
Telecom.

By the w f ay, contrary to pub¬
lished rumors, we’ve been in¬
formed that Laser Author will
not be copy protected.

We're eager to bring a full
review of this program (notwith¬
standing the fact that our pub¬
lisher is English), and will as
soon as it’s released. — SB

DIALOG BOX
OF THE MONTH

This dialog was submitted by
Thomas Wideman of Searcy, Ari¬
zona, Thomas ran into it while
returning to the Finder after
exploring the universe with a
public domain program, Star
Trek (written by Hari Dass
Khalsa), Looks like Thomas’ Mac
is slightly spaced-out. Seen any

unusual dialog boxes lately? MacUser Dialog Box, 25 West
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RUMOR MANAGER

The traditional software cate¬
gories are breaking down rapid¬
ly. 1987 will see many products
that fall into either entirely new
categories, some not even con¬
ceived yet. or some amalgams
of several older categories. For
example, forms processing
should become a major catego¬
ry of its own. Forms processing
combines traditional databas-
ing, drafting and forms mana-
gaing categories and more.
Several really hot new products
are already being tested, includ¬
ing at least one sure blockbust¬
er. ... An entirely new hard
disk technology will be intro¬
duced soon. Known as the

"hover disk,'" the ball-shaped
product holds more data than
traditional disks of the same
size and is nearly totally imper¬
vious to shock. At the moment,
the tiny stabilizing and speed-
control jets around the edges of
the platter are using nitrogen
gas. That's a problem. Howev¬
er. the developer feels a work¬
ing, albeit very expensive, mod¬
el will be available by mid¬
summer. Reasonably priced
units are 18 months off. . . .
Much prowling around recently
failed to uncover the rumored
cheap personal laser printer. In
fact, rumor had it that It was the
victim of the recent surge in the
value of the yen. Too bad. . .
Some dealers have reported

that Apple is planning to insti¬
tute a new formal dealer train¬
ing program. Seems adverse
comment here and elsewhere
has stung them. (Anyway, bra¬
vo to Apple, if they do it.). . .
The Macs and ImageWriter M's
used as cash registers in the
Apple Company Store cost Ap¬
ple less than any real cash
registers. What does that say
about higher manufacturing
costs and prices? (By the way,
the Macs run Double Helix as
their cash register emulation
program.). . . A simple, reli¬
able 40-meg tape back is under¬
going final testing. Its neatest
feature is the ability to do an
automatic, unattended backup
(say at 2 AM every other day).

And it should be very competi¬
tively priced. . . .At! the major
Mac magazines will be rating
programs by early 1987. . .
That explosion of hot pro¬
grams written in Texas is no¬
where near peaking. 1987 is
going to be a banner year for
Texas programs and program¬
mers. . . Amiga proponents
have been claiming that Amiga
sales spurted when the IIGS
was announced. They claim the
spurt was in reaction to the
price of the IIGS, its relative
lack of power (it's not the IIX
Woz dreamed of) and its rela¬
tive unavailability in 1986.
While real sales figures have
been hard to come by. the
Amiga is looking a bit rosier.

30 MACUSER JANUARY 1987

ANDY MARTIN

A GOOD DAY IN COURT

"One of the most serious prob¬
lems that software design el's
have had to face is the question
of copyrighting ideas. It is one
thing to own the rights to a
finished product, but how do you
prevent someone from stealing
the basic concept, changing it
slightly and coming out with
their own “clone” at a much
lower cost? Until recently, the
industry has had to face the fact
that ideas could not be copy¬

righted and software lookalikes
abound.

Well, the developers won one
for a change. In a decision
whose impact might reach far
beyond the software industry,
Rroderbund software won a law¬
suit filed against a competitor of
its Print Shop software, Rroder¬
bund claimed in the suit that
the competitor had copied the
menus, displays and general
structure of The Print Shop , The
competitor held the standard

line that these elements of a
computer program are not spe¬
cifically protected under copy¬
right law unless the program is a
video game.

The U S District Court decid¬
ed that the “user interface 11 of
non-video game software is pro¬
tected under the Federal Copy¬
right Act. What this means is
that someone who sweats blood
designing a program can now
claim copyright for the “look"
and “feel" of a program as well

as the code itself, This should
provide at least a measure of
security for the many Mac devel¬
opers we know of who are
pounding away in secret, trying
to bring an innovative product to
market before the competition.

Now all we need to make
things complete is a decision
favoring the consumer — one
that makes software publishers
accountable for the quality and
functionality of their software,
— MOW

TALES OF WORD PROCESSING II

November finally saw the re¬
lease of WnteNow, which was
once the other Mac Author. This
program was started before the
Mac was released, and its long,
long gestation is a true indica¬
tion of how hard it is to write
Mac word processors. A good
indicator of this program’s origi¬
nal intent and pedigree can be
gleaned from the file type (the
four-character name that Mac’s
operating system knows pro¬
grams by) of Mac Write: MAC A.
Looks suspiciously like the first
four letters in Mac Author,
doesiVt it? In fact, the original
MacAuthor was slated to be¬
come the Mac's first word pro¬

cessor, only to be beaten out by
the upstart Mac Write.

Time passed (as it has a habit
of doing), and WriteNow is final¬
ly available. It can best be de¬
scribed as strongly enhanced
MacWrite with a built-in spelling
checker. It has the simplicity
and ease of use of MacWrite,
and adds some power in addition
to the spell checker, It seems to
be a nearly perfect first word
processor for most Mac buyers.
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BRICKBATS AND ROSES

Microsoft recently took the
major step of removing the
copy protection on ail of their
Mac products. Thus, the new
Microsoft Works will not be
protected, nor will the forth¬
coming Word 3,0. The current
protected products will be un¬
protected In their next versions,
Microsoft deserves a lot of
applause for this new policy. It
recognizes the maturity of the
Macintosh and its users, and
further recognizes that copy
protection has no place in seri¬
ous business software.

Now that Microsoft products
will no longer be protected (a
policy that I hope many other
publishers will adopt), it's up to
you to make the policy work.
Don't participate in software pi¬
racy and don’t condone it ’

It s really good to see the
industry leaders taking these
pro-consumer positions It
would be nice if all the rest of

the industry followed or, better
yet, went further. After all,
without consumers, where
would these companies be?

On the down side, there are
two types of companies that
have been around for a while,
but are never talked about. I f m
talking about the "public do¬
main" software exchanges and
the software rental companies
Both types ol companies have
legitimate purposes and could
be valuable and respected
members of the Mac communi¬
ty. But so many of them are run
in ways that make you wonder
exactly what they're doing.

The "public domain" ex¬
changes seem reasonable
enough on the face of it. They
provide all that great software
to those who don't want to
bother with modems and elec¬
tronic services and bulletin
boards and their costs. They
also serve those who can't or

don't want to join a local users
group, or whose user group
doesn't provide the software.
Thafs reasonable.

/ r fs up to you to
make a no copy
protection policy
work. Don’t participate
in software piracy.

What’s not reasonable is that
much of the software ottered
isn’t, in fact, in the public do¬
main, and these companies of¬
ten don't care, A lot of the
software could be distributed if
the author's permission was
obtained, but that virtually nev¬
er happens. In some cases, an
exchange just gets a collection,
and without regard to the rights
of the authors or original off¬
erer, resells it at a lower price.

Some of these companies try
to get around the "no commer¬
cial resale" copyrights of many
programs by claiming that they
are real user groups. That's a
spurious argument, Have you
ever heard of a real user group
that has never had a meeting, a
newsletter (the catalogs are not
news), or any function other
than to collect and distribute
software? Also, the average
price per disk, while nothigh, is
considerably above that of le¬
gitimate user groups. However
they describe themselves, these
organizations exist to make a
profit by selling software. And
there’s nothing wrong with
that, as long as the rules are
followed and no one s rights are
trampled in the process.

Another major problem is
that much of the better software
is offered on a feeware or
shareware basis. While it would
appear that feeware authors

JANUARY 1 9 S 7 MACLISER31

NEW ON THE MENU

would benefit from the widest
possible distribution, that's not
the case here. Yes, it's true that
all the catalogs mention that
some software is shareware
and requires an extra fee, but
the warnings are never promi¬
nent and are often placed away
from the software listings
Many feeware authors have re¬
ported a distinct reluctance on
the part of people buying from
these companies to pay more
for the software since they feel
they've already "paid" for it.

/ t bothers me that a
lot of ads offer not
only rental soft¬
ware, but copy pro¬
grams and blank disks.

Several things need to be
done here. The companies
must obtain permission for all
the software they offer Sure,
it s a pain, and it will reduce the

number of offerings, but it's
necessary. A lot of the stuff
that's out there shouldn’t be,
and this simple step will go a
long way towards eliminating it.
The other thing that must be
done is that shareware must be
identified in the listings using
whatever language the authors
want No more weak state¬
ments buried at the bottom of
the page.

The software rental compa¬
nies pose a completely different
problem. They perform a valu¬
able service: that of letting you
try before you pay out a lot of
money for something that
doesn't work and that you can't
return (all companies aren’t as
enlightened as Hayes and a few
others). If I had tried out all the
software I've bought in the last
two years I'd have an extra hard
disk or two, rather than a lot of
unused disks and manuals.

One problem is that software
rental is probably not "legal”
according to the terms of the
onerous licenses and agree¬
ments" that are a part of mod¬

ern software marketing. Howev¬
er, as I haven't been able to
uncover any instances of pub¬
lishers trying to enforce these
agreements when the rental
companies violate them. I'm
not going to worry myself about
this point, and I don't think you
should, either.

Still, it bothers me that a lot
of the ads not only offer rental
software, but copy programs
and blank disks. Who is fooling
who? I'm sure that all these
companies send out "no copy"
letters and warnings, but if
there's a great offer for Copy II
Mac and blank disks in the
same package, it seems sort of
hollow.

What these companies need
to do is to not sell blank disks
(there's no dearth of sources),
not sell or rent copy programs
(they all work: there's no need
to ‘'try" one out); and protect
the manuals they send out.
possibly by overprinting pages
so they can't be photocopied.
That won’t solve all the prob¬
lems, but might at least remove

blatant temptation.

On the mail-order front this
month, we have some impor¬
tant news. In response to the
volume of complaints we’ve re¬
ceived about Northeastern Soft¬
ware, we've stopped accepting
and publishing their ads.

Our mail has made it clear
that Northeastern has had prob¬
lems in the past year. For a
while, it looked like they were
improving, due, in part,to Mac-
Users efforts. That helped the
minority of people who took the
trouble to complain to us as
well as to them The situation
seemed to be Improving and the
number of complaints we re¬
ceived dropped way off. How¬
ever, the volume has picked up
dramatically again, so we felt it
in your interests to accept no
further ads.

From our viewpoint, North-
eastern does not appear to have
engaged in any wrongdoing.
They simply seem to be a clas¬
sic case of a small company
that expanded too rapidly. —
SB

Slop Press: Just as we went to press, we learned that Northeastern Software had sought protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Statutes.

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bv Michael D. Wesley

BEHIND
THE SCEHES

scenes. Lurking in the wings arc two
new products. Both astounding in scope
and quality if the final versions live up to
their early promise.

Step with me behind the curtain, but
— let the reader beware. The products
mentioned were nor finished at the time
I saw them and may not be when you
read this. While I have permission to calk
about them, they remain unannounced
products so I will keep some details in
shadow so the companies won’t be ac¬
cused of the dreaded “vaporware,” Think
of these as rumors,,..

cions. Line drawings and similar artwork
are still being done by hand, sent out for
color separation and offset printed, even
in publications that are otherwise assem¬
bled completely on a Macintosh system.

The demonstrator proceeded to show
me a sophisticated line drawing tool.
The process begins with a digitized im¬
age of an existing picture or a sketch tor
a new piece of art. Instead of using a
paint program in fat hits to clean up the
Macintosh version, the artist or designer
uses some impressive computer drawing
tools to trace an outline of the scanned

BEHIND CURTAIN NUMBER ONE

1 went to the futuristic Hyatt Regency
Hotel, quite some distance from die
convention complex, deep in the heart of
downtown Dallas. I was invited to see a
new product from a company heavily
involved in the Macintosh market, but
not previously known for consumer soft¬
ware. I had no idea what to expect,

I wasn’t sure at first whether I would
be seeing hardware or software, but it
turned out to be a rather dynamic exam¬
ple of the latter—a piece of software
designed to fill a rather significant hole
in the desktop publishing/presentation
graphics arena.

The demonstrator pointed out that
while the Mac has proven to be a fabu¬
lous tool for many graphic applications,
artists and designers alike would admit
its shortcomings in the area of line
drawing. Although images can be drawn
by hand and scanned in with ThunderS-
can or another digitizer, it often takes
more time to clean up a scanned bit¬
mapped image than it would take to
create it in the first place. And, even
laser-printed images are often too rough
to use in professional quality

image.

This oud ine beco mes a te mplate
which can be easily altered. It can be
filled with various patterns, shades of
gray or colors (only for printing, of
course), it can be skewed or it can be
rotated around any point. Because the
tracing is done as a collection of objects,
any single element, including text, can be
treated in the same way.

The screen display is not generated as
a normal Macintosh screen. Instead, it’s
generated by PostScript, the page de¬
scription language that drives the Laser¬
Writer and a variety of other laser print¬
ers, and Linotronic typesetting
equipment. What you sec on screen may
not be an exact representation of what
will be printed because die program has
to deal with a 75 dot per inch screen.
Text which has been rotated looks
strange on screen, because die characters
are displayed upright along a slant.
When printed out, PostScript will print
the text correctly in any orientation.

Unlike Cricket Draw , which brings
some of the power of PostScript to the
user in an easily accessible way, this
program—code-named Picasso —is in¬
tended to serve as a high-powered Post-

T he crowd masses as you wait, perhaps
ten minutes, perhaps an hour or
more. The roustabouts who built the
elaborate kingdom you are about to
enter scurry from place to place, putting
the finishing touches on the fantasy. The
harried, anxious players are making last-
minute arrangements, checking their
props and sets. An electric charge builds
widiin the crowd as you wait expectant¬
ly. You arc there hoping to be surprised,
enlightened, entertained. You might
even be one of the fortunate few present
at the birth of a new phenomenon.

The opening moments are touched
with magic. After hundreds of hours of
planning and preparation, after thou¬
sands of pounds of sets and equipment
have been shipped and assembled, after
people have gathered from around the
country and around the world-—the
doors are finally opened to admit anyone
with a ticket. The crowd presses you
forward and thrusts you, head first, into
the world of the Macintosh trade show.

As you walk through the cavernous
exhibition hall—whether with an orga¬
nized course in mind, or at random-—
you are drawn into a carnival where the
barkers beckon you to explore the un¬
known. They call to you in voices loud
and soft, harsh and genteel, profound
and profane. And you go, willingly,
knowing up front that you are there to
be sold to, hoping to gain enough infor¬
mation to ensure that your purchases are
sound.

If you know how to work a
show to your advantage, you can easily
recover the price of admission through
discounts on products that are displayed,
or the savings in time and energy that
come when you find a product that
answers a crying need.

What consumers and observers may
not realize is that many of the important
events at trade shows occur off the floor,
away from the booths and away from the
public eye. Deals arc cut, lawsuits are
threatened, editorials are privately criti¬
cized and information is passed that may
not become public knowledge for some
time.

Although the trade show that inspired
this column took place in October, it
might still be soon enough to let you in
on some secrets divulged behind the

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Script tool for artists and graphic design¬
ers. The professional designer invited to
see the product when I did was floored
by it and thought that Picasso would he a
tremendous asset in his work. This looks
like a winner and should he announced
at the Macworld Expo in January.

“I’LL TAKE WHAT'S IN THE BOX"

What's in the box called Macintosh
that reallv hasn't been touched yet is a
word processor of unparalleled power.
Since the Mae was introduced, we have
been clamoring for a word processor
with automatic indexing, the ability to
search and replace based on character
attributes (such as font and style), style
sheets, automatic footnoting and much
more. What we have seen so far are
largely just variations on MacWriU that
tried to incorporate extra features found
in Microsoft Word. We haven't yet seen
the range of features found in power
word processors on lesser machines.

However, don't despair. Besides the
k) i ig- awa i red rev ■ is i on t>f M i crose>ft Word
that is expected soon, there is another
word processor of astounding abilities
awaiting its debut.

The specs for this program read like a
wish list. Files are automatically indexed
and you can link hies together. The
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and column widths on a page and text
flows automatically from column to col¬
umn. It has automatic footnoting and
footnotes are automatically updated. A
scaled down version of MacDraw is built
into the program for graphics. Pictures
can be embedded within text and text
will automatically flow around a graphic
of any shape or size.

"Post-it" notes can be attached to text
and the program can search any portion
of a document—such as notes, footnotes
or headers—independently or as a
whole. You can also search and replace
any character or word based on its font,
style, size, even justification.

The program stores revisions, so it lets
you change your mind and go back to an
earlier version of the text.

This new word processor is very fast
because the CPU is always working. For
instance, when vou search for the word
"Macintosh" in a document, the CPU
starts looking as soon as you type the M,
narrowing its search as you go along.

I hope that both of these programs can
debut soon, and that still more incredible
software is on the way. As developers
begin to understand the power of the
Macintosh and how to tap into it, there
should be much more excitement to
come, ^

V ‘The Macintosh legacy has only just begun.”

"You know, in the last two years, we've come up with a
really impressive family of products for what was supposedly
a closed machine, 1 '

"Right, And now Apple s coming out with an open
architecture machine. The possibilities seem endless,"

I wish we could show people what we Ye developing right
now. 1 '

^ "Now, not all our products are good looking. Take
MaxChill™."

"Sure it's funny looking. But it's the best thing on the market
for keeping the Macintosh™ cool. A cool Mac is a reliable
Mac."

"And the best thing is that you don't even remember it’s
there. It's internal and it's quiet. You don't see it. You don’t
hear it,"

ft "Remember hnw hard we
worked on The Max? It was
our first memory product, and
we waived to make it right.”

W Then there's MaxPrint™ — a print spooler that works! No one could believe there urn
such a thing, let alone that we were giving it away with all our Max memory expansions, 1 ’

"And you know, we re still doing that. But it has become so popular, we've made it available on
its own. MaxPrint is selling bundled with MaxRAM™ — both programs for under $50.

"Right. We even spent a lot
of time deciding what color
the resistors should be. Bui
the engineering really stood
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’Don't forget reliable.”

"We could have cut corners, I
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product."

"We haven't changed that
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Infosphere MacServe 249.00

Laser Serve 125.00

Kenl Marsh Ltd- MacSate 49 00

IWacMaster Systems Fedit Plus V1 0 32 00

MacM emery, [no. MaxRfem Max Print 30 00
Mainstay

MacBooster. Disk Ranger, or MacSpool 32 00
N'Cryplor or PScPaint 26 00

Flashback (Herd Disk Backup Utility) 36.00
Meacc m Mac +JI fversion 2.0) 105.00

MICrOAnalyst MacZap (Version 4 I/ 33,00

Nevins Microsystems

TurboCharger (Version 2.0) 30.00

New Canaan Microcode
Mac Disk Catalog 0 f572K/ 32.00

M DC Finder 20.00

PBI Soltware HD Back-Up 20.00

NFS Locator Plus 27.00

Personal Computer Peripherals Corp.

HFS Backup 35.00

Soltstyie Printworks 49.00

Epsiart V2 0. Jeistart, or Toshstart 27 00

Lasersiari 59,00

Tt Start or Color Mate vz.i 49,oO

CotorMate Art 25.00

PtotStart w/Cahie 69.00

williams * Macias myDiSkLabeler V2.11 27.00
myDk$*LabeJer w/Cotor 34.00

fityDiSkLadder for LaserWriter 35.00

Desk Accessory Programs

AfUnity Microsystems

Tempo (Version p./j

59.00

Batteries Included

Baitery Pak. (Version U)

29 00

Borland

SideKick with PhoneLmk. r Vardan t j)

59.00

Cortland Top Desk ( Version 1.4 /

35 00

Dreams Of The Phoenix Tweive-G

27.00

Imagine Sol (ware Smart Alarms

3900

Silicon Beach Software

Accessory Pak fll

21 00

Languages

Advanced A.L Systems AJ. Prolog

109.00

Apple Computer MacPascai

99 00

Macintosh 06000 Development System

159 00

Borland Turbo Pascal

65 00

Consulate

Mac C/Mac 0 Toolkit (Version 4.5J

259.00

Mega max, Inc. Megamax C Compiler

175.00

Microsoft Microsoft Basic (VeisionZ. If

89 00

Microsoft Logo r vors^on t.O)

75 00

Microsoft Fortran Compiler

(Version 2.1)

169 00

Think Technologies Lightspeed G

12900

Lightspeed Pascal

9500

TML Systems TML Pascal V2 0

69 00

TML Source Code Library

59 00

DataBase Toolkd

65.00

True Basic, Inc. True Basic

89.00

True Basic Runtime

95.00

Algebra, Pre-Catcuius. Calculus,

Statistics, Trigonometry. 3D Graphics,

Discrete Math. Probability 6

Chippendale utilities feacTij

36.00

Zedeor, Inc. Z Basic

65.00

Communications Software

Apple Computer MacTerminai 99.00

CompuServe CompuServe Starter ten 27 00
DataViz MacLrnk wnh Cable
( Transfer Mae IBM files I 105.00

D1 lithium Press

PC to Mac and Back with Cables 105.00

Dreams Of The Phoenix

Mouse Exchange Terminal 27.00

Hayes Micro computer SmarEcom II 59.00

Mainstay

Telescape Pro (VTlQO Emulsion 79.00

Turbo Download 25.00

Palantir inTatk (TTY. VT- 100.

ADDS. IBM 310?. Vidtex) 79.00

Software Ventures Microphone 59.00

Think Technologies, Inc.
fnBoX’Starter Kit

^3 Persona/ Connections) 215.00

tnBox-Addiiional Personal' Connect ions 59.00

Microsoft Microsoft File 1 02

110,00

Qdesta Helix (Version 2.0)

105 00

Double Helix

275.00

ProVUE Development Over VUE Z.Od

149.00

Software Discoveries, Inc.

Record Holder

42.00

Telos Software Business FiteVisiOn

199 00

Business Software

1 Apple Computer Mac Project

159.00

Assimilation Process Business Essentials

! 49.00

Cdcket Software Cricket Graph

129 00

Dreams Of The Phoenix

Day Keeper Calendar

27 00

Ex ecu com Mind sigh!

179.00

Human Edge Sol (wart

The Communications Edge

57 00

The Management Edge or

The Sales Edge

5700

Negotiation Edge

57.00

The Mmd Prober

26.00

Lotus Jazz (Version J.A J

259.00

Mainstay MacFlow r'Ffowcha/f

Design & Documentation)

8500

Micro Planning Software

Micro Planner Plus

299 00

Microsoft Microsolt Works

169.00

MicrosoM MuHiplan 11

105 00

MicrosoM Chan 1.0

72.00

Microsoft Excel 1.Q

225.00

L eg 1 soft/Nolo Press Will Writer V2,0

/Includes Tesfimon/af Trust)

32 00

Pro Plus Software Market Pro

259 00

Satori Software Bulk Mailer

79 00

Soflechnlca/Ballertes Included

Time Link (Dme Marjegemehf Sysfemj

32.00

Word/Idea Processors

Living Videotex! More i Third

Generation idea Processing)

159.00

Think Tank 512

99.00

Mainstay Think Now

3600

Microsoft Microsolt Word 105

111.00

OWL International

Guide Hypertext (or the Macintosh

9500

Symmetry Acia (Outline word

Processor in pA formatf

39 00

Target Software vcitat t full featured

Desk Accessory Outhner)

53 00

T/Maker Company WnteNow

105 00

Spelling Checkers

A.L.P. Systems. MacProol V2.0 (Spoiling,

Style, & Grammar Checker)

129 00

Assimilation Process Thu Right Word

49.00

Batteries Included Thunder!

(interactive Spelling Checker)

26 00

Creighton Development MacSpette

55 00

En ter Set. Inc

MacGas (with Glossary A Thesaurus)

5500

Hayden Software Hayden Spoiler

2600

Greene, Johnson Inc. SpeltsweH

45 00

Mainstay Spell Now

36 00

Target Software

MacLightmng 2.0 w/Webster Dictionary

5300

Additional Thesaurus Library

2600

Medical Dictionary or Legal Dictionary

53.00

Desktop Publishing

Boston Software Publish era

The MacPublisher ll

139.00

Mac-Hy-Phen

69 00

Mac Indexer

62.00

Manhattan Graphics

Ready, Sei. Go 1 (Vernon 30)

179 00

ReadySeiGoi Desk Design

37 00

Orange Micro, Inc.

Ragtime [tepfegrefed Page Processing)

23900

Solutions, Inc.

Glue (Transfer Graphics Convonreofiy

and ",Print to Disk" Facility)

4200

Overlays For MuHiplan

& Excel"*

1

Apropos Financial Planning or

investment Planning

4500

RealDaia, tnc.

Overlays For Mufepian, Jan & Fxce/' 1 '

Tax Shelter Syndication Analysis

169 00

On Schedule

119.00

Real Estete investment Analysis vs.q

125.00

Financial Analysis

62.00

Commerciai h ndustriai AppEicaiions

62 00

Residential Real Eslace

62 00

Overlays for Microsoft Excel’"

Pfoperty Management Level l

149.00

Mortgage Qualifier

119 00

Listing Prosoecl Data Manaaemeni

119.00

__^_

inventory Control 229 00

Professional Billing 229.00

Professional Three Pack-
GL/Pro Billing/Payables 349 00

Contfnenlal/Arrays

Th e Home Aoco un Eant 52.00

Digital. Etc, Turbo Maccouniant 269.00

Maccounlant V2.0 90.00

Monogram Dollars & Sense Bi.QO

Business Sense GL/AR/AP 349.00

Open Systems Open For Business II 499 00
Palanlir GL, AH. or Inventory Control 59.00
Peachtree

General Ledger or Accounts Recoiva bio 59.00
Accounts Payable 59.00

Sierra On-Line MacOneWrite GL or AR 39.00
MacOneWrite Cash Disbursements 39.00
MacOneWrite Three Pack (GUAB/CD) 59.00

Statistics Packages

Brainpower StatView 5i2 Plus

1.79.00

Crickel Software Stafworks

79.00

Northwest Analytical NWA SlafPak

229 00

NWA Quality Analyst

299 00

StatSoft SlatFast-2

75 00

Si a (ware. Inc. SEatSO [Standard/

179.00

Slat80 f Professional)

279 00

Systal Syslat (Version 3 Q)

459 00

Graphics Software

Allsys Corp. Fontashc

25,00

Ann Arbor Sol (works Full Paint

(Un-Protected. includes Color Print)

5900

Brainpower GraphddSx

(Graphics indexing Program)

69.00

Broderbund Print Shop

49 00

Toy Shop

41.00

Casady Company

Fluent Fools f 7wo-Drsk Ser?

2900

Fluent Laser Fonts

49 00

Choice of Bodom. Sanserif,

Ritz 5 Bight Bank r Afanterey;

Cahgraphy 5 Regency or Prelude

Desktop Graphics Draw Art

29 00

Dubl-CUck Soltware

World Class Fonls Volume 1 (3 Disk Set)

29 00

World Class Fonts Volume li [3 Drsir SofJ

29 00

EDO Communications

LaserWorks/ Version i.2)

239 00

Hayden VidcoWorks

59 00

DaVinci: Building Blocks

52 00

DaVinci: Commercial Interiors

11900

Innovative Data Design

Paste-Ease (Volumes 1 At!)

3600

I/O Designs ColorPrint Software Only

25.00

CalorPrml Starter Kit-3

39.00

Micro Spot MacPalette

52.00

Miles Computing

Mac The Knife Volume III

27 00

MUndtcape ComicWorks

49 00

Graphs Works

49 00

Silicon ©each Software SuporPamt

5600

Silicon Press

4200 i

Springboard

Art A La Mac Vol t-People A Places

23 00

Art A La Mac Vot. 2-Variety Pack

2300

Symmetry PictureBase

45,00

T/Maker

Click Art Letters or Personal Graphics

2900

Click Art Publications or EFleets

2900

Click Art Letters ll or Click An Holidays

29 00

Click Art Business Image

29 00

CAD Products

Apple Computer Mac Draw

159.00 I

Brainpower Design Scope

129.00

Chaflenger Software Mac 3D (Version 2.0) Call

Cricket Software Crickel Draw

179 00

Dreams Ol The Phoenix

Phoenix 3D Level One

27.00

Enabling Technologies Easy 3D

69 00

Innovative Data Design

MacDrafE /Vo/sron 1.2)

139 00

MicroSpol WacPlot

119 00

MacPlol Professional

224.Q0

Vamp, Inc. Me Cad PCS

299.00

McCad Schematics

399 00

Educational/Creative

Software

DataBase Management Accouating PaokaoM

Ashton-Tate dBase Mac 309.00

Blythe Soltware Cmrus 3 Plus 279.00

Mims 3 Multiuser 72-5 Users,

Specify MacServe or Corwsf 569 00

Borland Reflex 59 00

Forethought FileMaker Plus 159.00

©PI

BPi Eniry Senes-General Accounting 225 00

Chang Labs

Rags to Riches GL, AR, or AP 99 00

Rags lo Riches Three Pack-GL/AR/AP 249.00

Addison Wesley Puppy Love 26.00

©roderbund Sensei Geometry 62.00

Davidson 3 Associates Speed Reader II 37.00
Math Blaster or word Attack' 27.00

Electronic Art* Pinball Construction Set 27.00
Deluxe Music Construction Set V2.0 64.00

First Byte Kid Talk or Spelter Bee 42.00

Math Talk 42.00

First Shapes 32 00

Great Wave Software Concert Ware Plus 39.00
Concert ware MIDI 99.00

KrdsTime 29 00

Hayden MusicWorkg 32.00

Score Improvement System for the SAT 59.00
Score Improvemenl-Achievement Teals 59.00

K ettc Gro up Si udi o Session 69.00

Micro: Maps MacAtlas Volume 1 or 2 49.00

M l crosoft H a nds On Excel 32.00

Learning Multiplan & Chart 39.00

Mind scape Pertecl Score SAT

47 00

The Lucher Profile

26.00

Dick Francis' High Slakes

2600

Queue Intellectual Software

Noi Like The Qihere

3600

How Many? or Early Reader

2500

Whal Comes Next?

3500

Reading 6 Thinking 1 or It

39 00

Vocabulary Adventuro 1 or II

44.00

Spanish Grammar 1, II, or III

25.00

World Geography Adventure f or II

44.00

U.S. Geography Adventure

4400

How A Bill Becomes A Law

44.00

American History Adventure

44.00

Starling A New Business

44.00

Analogies l or It

49 00

College Aptitude Reading Exercises

49 00

Rubicon Publishing Dinner st Eight

35 00

Silver Fatal e Col tec bon

2900

Dinner at Eight-Silver Patate Bundle

5900

Simon 6 Schuster Typing Tutor III

35 00

Paper Airplane ConsUucHon Sel

24.00

Software Concepts

Concepts Computerized Allas

45-00

Spinnaker Typing Made Easy

32 00

Springboard

Early Games for Voung Children

2900

Easy as ABC

29 00

1 Game Software

Accolade Hard Ball

25 00

Activision Borrowed Time or Hacker

27.00

Hacker ll: The Doomsday Papers

32 00

Mintishadow or Shanghai

27.00

Championship Star League Baseball

2200

Alter Ego (Male or female Version)

36.00

Tass Times In Tonetown

29 00

Broderbund Ancient Art or War

27 00

Bulteeye Soltware

Fokker TnPtane Flight Simulator

35.00

Ferrari Grand Pox

3500

Electronic Arts AutOduet

34 00

ChessMaster 2009

31.00

Patton vs Rommel or One-Qn-Qne

27.00

SkyFox, Archon, or Scrabble

27.00

EpVx winter Games or Rogue

24.00

Temple of Apshai Trilogy

24 00

Hayden Software Sargon til

29.00

Infinity Software, LTD

Grand Siam Tennis

29 00

Infocom A Mind Forever voyaging

26 00

Cutthroats. Enchanter, or Ballyhoo

23 00

Deadline or Stereress

29 00

Hitchhiker's Guide or Zorfc l

23 00

Infidel, Zork tl r Zork Ilf or Moon Mist

26 00

Planet tali. Seastalker or Trinity

23.00

Sorcerer. Suspect, or

Leather Goddesses of PhobCS

26.00

Suspended or Spciibreaker

29 00

Wish hunger or Witness

23 00

Invisiclues-Hint Booklets i'ea}

600

MacroMInd Maze Wars-

32 00

Microsoft Flight Simulator f kters/on 1,0/

32 00

Mlndscape Balance ol Power

30.00

Crossword Magic

30.00

Deja Vy A Nightmare COrp.e$ True

33 00

1 Indiana Jones- Revenge of thH Ancients 25.00 1

James Bond 007 A View To toil

24.00

James Bond 007 Goldhnger

24,00

King Of Chicago

32.00

Racier or The Hairey Proieti

27.00

Rambo Firsl Blood Part 11

24.00

Stephen King's The Mifit

24.00

The Uninvited

30.00

Omnllrend Soltware

Omnitrend's Universe It

39.00

Origin Systems Exodus' UHima ill

38.00

FBI Software Strategic Conquest H

(Multi-Player War Game./

39 00

Polarwarc PensaEe. Transytvania.

or Sword of Kadash

15,00

Kyphus, Coveted Mrrror, Crimson

Crown, orOo-Topos

1500

Practical Computer Applications

MacGoif (Version 2.0)

36 00

Psion Psion Chess (3D A Multi-Lingual)

31.00

Q Ware, inc. OrbQuest

35.00

Silicon Beach Soltware

Enchanted Scepters

21 00

Dark C a site

28 00

World Builder

45 00

Simon 6 Schuster

Star Trek / 7ha Kobayashi Adventure)

24 00

Sir-Tech Mac Wizardry

36 00

Spectrum Holobyte GATQ

26 00

Orbit er

27 00

Sublogic JET fSrmufares Land

Based F- 76 & Carrier Based F-18}

35,00

Vide* MacGammon 6 Cribhage

28 00

MacVegas

34 00

Disk Drives/Hard Disks/

Upgrades

AST Research

A$T-20OO

1995 00

20 MB External Herd Disk with

20-MB Cartridge-Tape Backup

for the Macintosh Plus.

AST-4000

4735 00

74 MS External Hard Disk wr[h

SO-MS Cartridge-Tape Backup

tor the Macintosh Plus.

In Connecticut Call 378-3662 or 378-8293

Smart modem 2400

579.O0

Transet 1000-128K

269 00

Transet 1000-512 K

359 00

Transet 1000 Mac Accessory Kit

31.00

Prentice

Popcorn K-100 Modem w/Straightaik

259 00

Prometheus

Promodem 1200M w/ProCom-M

299 0 0

U.S. Robotics Password 1200

199 00

Courier 2400

389,00

Printers 1

Brother

M- 1 109AP image Writer Compatible

269 00

HR-20 (20cps) Daisywheel/Serial

349.00

HR-25 (23cps) Daisywheel/Serial

519O0

HR-35 (35cps) Daisywbeef/Seriai

72900

Juki

6100 (Wcps) Daisywheel Serial

399 00

6200 (30cps) Daisywheel Serial

570.00

6300 (40cps) Daisywheel Serial

689 00

Okidata ML-192 Apple Map/Lisa

389 00

ML-193 Apple Mec/Lisa

559.00

Toshiba

P-321 24 Pin (21GCPS) Par./Ser i0 r '

499.00

P-341 24 Pin (ZiGcps) Par./Ser 10-

739.00

P-351 24 Pin (289CPS) Par/Ser. 15"

1079 00

Blank Media

Single Sided 3V," Diskettes

BASF 3'h" SS/DD Disks (box of 5)

10 00

Bulk (Sony) 2'/ : " SS/DD Disks (10)

15.00

Sony 3Vf SS/DD Disks (box of 10)

16.00

Centech 3^ r SS/DD Color Disks

(box o( 10)

18.00

Fuji 3Y/ SS/DD Disks (box ol 10)

16.00

Maxell 3V 55/DD Disks (box of 10)

16.00

Verbatim 3V ? " SS/DD Disks /box Of 10)

17.00

3M 3V SS/DD Disks ibox of 10)

19.00

C.lloh Color Disks SS/DD (box of 10)

21.00

Double Sided 3^ 'Diskettes

BASF 3V DS/DD Disks (box of 5)

14.00

Bulk/SonyJ 3 V DS/DD (10)

21.00

Centech 3V ? " DS/DD Color Disks

tbOx Of 10)

24.00

Sony DS/DD Disks (box of 10)

24.00

Fuji 3V?'' 1 DS/DD Disks (box of 10)

24.00

Maxefl 3V ? " DS/DD Disks (box ot 10)

24.00

Verbatim 3DS/DD Disks (box of J0>

25.00

3M DS/DD Disks (box ot f0J

27.00

C.ltoh Color Disks DS/DD (box of 10)

29.00

Digitizers

Kette Group

Capture any sound from the real world*

MacNiNy Auctio Digitizer w/SoundCap

99Q0

Koala Technologies Corp.

KAT Graphics Tablet

135 00

MacVision

169.00

Magnum Natural Sound Cable 8 Editor

69 00

Sound Effecls

2600

New Image Technology Magic Digitizer

249.00 ■

Summagraphics MacTablet 6x9 size

259 00 ■

MacTablct 12x12 size

35900 1

Thunder Ware

Thunderscan V3.2/Mac 128 S 512k)

175.00 1

MacPlus Power Accessory

29.00 1

MacPlus Adapter Cable Kit:

|

r rbuodorscan to MacPfus 5 fo

/mageWrdor // Cables)

3900

X-10 {USA) Inc.

K-10 Powerhouse Computer Interface

65,00

Extra Modules (For Lamps, Wall

Switches. & Appliances)

15.00

Books i

Microsoft Press

Creative Programming in

Microsoft Basic

15 00

Command Perlormance-

Microsott Excel

20 00

Excel in Business

18.00

inside MacPaint

15.00

Macintosh Midnight Madness

1500

Maework/MacPiay

15.00

Microsoft Mad nations

16,00

Microsoft Muttiptan: Oi Mice and Menus

14.00

Microsoft Works on Apple Macintosh

15.00

Presentation Graphics on Macintosh

15.00

The Apple Macintosh Book VoL 2

15.00

The Printed Word

14.00

Ordering Instructions 1

□owe Computer Corpora lion

MacSnap *2

(MacPlus to 2MB Upgrade) 369.00

MacSoap Model 524

(512K to 1MB Upgrade) 249.00

MacSnap Model 540

(512K to 2MB Upgrade) 499.00

Eh man Engineering

All Ehman Drives come with a 12-Month Warranty
0QOK Disk Drive (Totaliy Silent) 219.00

20HD (20MB SCSI Hard Drive
for MacPlus) Call

Iomega

Single Cartridge Drives

Bernoulli Box 10MB lor MacPlus 1209,00

Bernoulli Box 20MB for MacPlus 1619.00

Dual Cartridge Drives
Bernoulli Box 2-iOMB

for MacPlus SCSI 1619 00

Bernoulli Box 2-20MB lor
Mac Plus SCSI 2359.00

10MB Carl ridges f3 Pack) 159.00

20MB Cartridges (3 Pack) 209 00

Head Cleaning Kit 69.00

LoDOWN

Hard Disks & Tape Back ups for the Mac Phis
toDown 20/20 Combo
(20 MB Hard Disk w;20MB Tape) 1439 00
LoDotvn.’T20

(20 Megabyte Tape Drive) 769 00

LoDown-20 (20 Megabyte Hard Disk) S89 00
MaeMemory Inc.

The Max Pi us i2MB Upgraoe
w MaxRam Max Print(MaxChiK) 399 00

The MaxPlus Enhanced r 2.5MB
w/MaxRamiMax PnntfMax Chitt) 559 00

MaxSave (internal Recoverable
Rem Disk For rhe MacPlus) 99.00

MDIdeas, Inc.

HD-20 f 20M8 Hard Disk For MscPhtS) 899 00
HD-30 (30MB Hard Disk For MacPlus) 1299 .00
TDBK-204

(22MB Cartridge Tape Backup) 079 00

Mirror Technologies

Magnum 600K External Drive 229.00

MagNel 20 (Internal 20MB
Hard Drive WMacServe) 1095.00

MagNel 20X (External 20MB
Hard Drive wiCabie) 939.00

Mag Net 3GH /External 30M9
Hard Drive wiGable) 993.00

MagNel 30X / External 30MB
vrMacServbSCable) 1093.00

MagNel 40/40 1 40MB w 40MB Tape.

MacServe Included) \ 2495.00

Magnum Tape 20

(20MB Tape Backup) 949.00

Fast Port rSCSr Port

tor your Mac 512K) 139.00

Peachtree Technology S2CH
(20MB lor MacPSus SCSI wf Cable) 699.00

Peak Systems

Plus-20 t20MB SCSI Drive) 759.00

Plus-30 (30MB SCSI Drive) 1019.00

PIUS-20T (20MB Tape Back up) 669 00

Sierra f30Me Drive with 40MB Tape) 1019-00
Sierra XL (30MB Drive

with 40M8 Tape) 1959 00

Peripheral Land

P L 20-2 1MB Formatted for MacPlus ?69 00
PL 30-32MB Formatted for MacPlus 949.00

MacFa&t 20-21 MB wfTape Controller
tor Mac 5 12K or MacPlus 949.00

MacFasL 30-3?AfB wfTape Controller
(or Mac 512K or MacPlus 1229.00

MacBack 20- 27MB Tape Backup 799.00

MacPort Plus Host Adaptor-SCS/

Interface for Mac 512K 159 00

Personal Computer Peripherals
Mac&ottom HD-21 (20MB
Hard Disk ior MacPlus SCSI) 069.00

PKI Me D 0OOK External Dr ive 109 00

ProAPP World's Fastest High-Capachy
MacPlus SCSI Hard Disk System:

Pro APP 4OS Hard Disk System
i$ub-30msec. Voice Coil Technology) Call
ProAPP 20MB Hard Disk System
(Mac 128k. 512K.MaePft.rs SCSI > Call

Relax Technology

Harp 20 Plus (MacPlus 20MB SCSI) 729 00

Mac Male 20 / Mac Plus 2QMB SCSI) 699 00

Uni vat inn

MacSdmLms Hard Daves wd/t Crash Protection
1-10WIB Removable Hard Disk 1719.00

-10MB Removable Hard Disk 2739.00

30MB Fixed Hard Drive Only 1409.00

40 MB Fixed Hard Drive Only 2119.00

20MB Fixed with 10MS Removable
or 40MB Tape Backup 2349.00

30MB Fixed with 10MB Removable
or 40MB Tape Backup 2509.00

40MB Fixed with 10MB Removable
or 4DMB Tape Backup 3129.00

Western Automation Labi
Dasch External RAMdisk <2Q48kBi 399.00

Modems

Anchor Aulomalion

Signalman Express 12DD Baud

235O0

Srgnaiman Lightning 2400 Baud

355.00

Hayes Microcomputing teterbridge

549.00

Smarten odem 1200

379.00

Smartmodem 1200 Mac

w/Smartcom II 8 Cable

429.00

I/O Design MacPlus Carrying Case 69.00

ImageWriter Carrying Case 39 00

ImageWriter II Carrying Case 49 00

imageWriler Wide Carrying Case 49 00

Kalmar Designs

Teakwood Baft-Top Disk Cases:

Micro Cabi ne! (holds 45 3 ’■?" disks) 14.00

Double Micro Cabinet

(holds SO 3'/z~ disks) 21.00

Tea kwood Pri nter Stand 24“' 29 00

Kensington System Saver Mac 65.00

A/B Bd* /Specify Mac or MacPlus) 62 00

Di sk Case (holds 36 Met disks) 19.00

Traveling Disk Case 6.00

Di Sk Drive Clean ing Kit 19.00

External Disk Drive Cover B.OO

ImageWriter or ImageWriter It Cover 9.00

Macintosh Dust Cover 9.00

Mouse Cleaning Kit w/Pocket 16.00

Mouse Pocket 8.00

Circular Polerrzang Filler 31.00

Starter Pack /mc/udes TiltfSwivat) 33.00

Surge Proteclor 35.00

Tilt/Swivel 22.00

Coni rot Center 62 00

Printer Stand 17.00

Copy Stand 22 00

Kette Group

MacNilty Joystick Convertor 35.00

MscNitty Stereo Music System
MNS-20O 75 00

MacNdty Stereo Music System
MNS-300 / Dolby. Bass. Treble) 99.00

MacNilty A/B Switch 25 00

MacNilty A/B/C/0 Switch 3900

Kraft QuickSlick lit 4900

MacMemory. inc. Ma*Chill 39.00

Mouatrak MousePad 7“ x 9" Size 6 00

MousePad 9'“x11 tJ Size 9.00

MPH Computer Products
MAC-B-COGL 99,00

N* Products Inc,

MacPlus to ImageWriter u Cable /6 feet) 19.00
MacPlus lc DB-9 Adaptor Cable 19.00

MacPtus lo SCSI Drive Cable 24.00

Optimum Computer Luggage
MacTole Mac Carry Case 60 00

PrintTole ImageWriter II Carry Case 60 00

Ribbons Unlimited

Avai/aWe m Biack. Blue. Brown. Green,

Orange. Purple. Red. Trfeftcnv. Silver & Gold
ImageWriter Ribbon-Black 4 50

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XANADU
IN THE FOG

I Jove to buy strange old books. Mv
favorites are travelogues written in the
late 1800's and early 1900's. Things
like A Trip Down the Conjjo, and Travels
in the Turkish Empire. That kind of stuff.
Journeys to Xanadu. IYe never been to
Xanadu, blit yesterday 1 was at Micro¬
soft. Lem me tell you about it.

First, there's a comparison that can't
be avoided. The house that Jobs built
versus the house that Gates built. They're
different houses. Jobs, the visionary for¬
mer hippie college drop-out turned wild¬
ly successful salesman. Gates, the Har¬
vard-educated programmer ruined
wildly successful businessman. No, make
that “shipwright. 11 Microsoft builds ships
to sail on oceans dredged and tilled bv
Tandw IBM, and Apple, Maybe that
imparts a touch of humility, or a dose of
reality — assuming the two are different.

Then there's location. Apple com¬
mands Silicon Valiev. Intel is across the
street. The air is sweet with stock option
money; the parking lots of Cupertino are
littered with BMW's and Mercedes.

Up north in Redmont, a Seattle sub¬
urb, Microsoft is lost in the fog, I wore
my favorite gray cardigan to visit; Seattle
responded with a gray pullover with a
hood. They say that the citv is ringed
with mountains. I didn't see 'em. I did
see Microsoft's parking lots. Fords,
Toyotas, and Honda Civics. Carpoolers
get the good stalls.

Inside, it's quietly busy. Unlike Apple,
where many (most?) employees work in
cubicles, here people have offices; real
offices with doors and windows. Not big
or fanev offices; small, neat offices: a
desk, an IBM (or Compaq), a Macin¬
tosh.

Orhc r d i fie re i ic es a re mo re s u bt le. M S -
crosoft scents more studious; less frenet¬
ic. More facts, less hype. And, although
Apple has trimmed management, Micro¬
soft seems leaner. Whenever I called
Marry Tancher, Microsoft's Public Rela¬
tions chief, l imagined offices of “Mar¬
ty's minions” — a slew of PR people,
laboring over press releases, announce¬
ments, mailings, and events. It turns out
that Public Relations is Marty Taut her,
Sarah Chart’ and Public Relations Assis¬
tant, Coby Cressey.

This, for a company with 1986 reve¬
nues of SI 97,514,000. So I promise not

to bother Mam' unless I really gotta.

Product management is handled bv
Product Managers, One product, one
Product Manager. Young, bright over¬
achievers. Nobody smokes, Mostly
MBA's, but few blue suits. Each is
responsible for, well, everything, it
seems, involved with getting the product
made, released, and promoted. A stag¬
gering workload for one person. I
wouldn’t want to work riant hard.

But still, you know, it's Microsoft,
They can do anything they want, any¬
time, right? They can afford it, right?

But it's not that simple. I said “I'd like
to see templates for Excel Pm a naive
spreadsheet user. Anything over 20 cells
makes me nervous.”

They could do that, right? Sure. But,
as I learned, it's a question of money,
people and — most important — time.
What's best for Microsoft? Write tem¬
plates or do a new version of Word*
Update Tile or redo Lisp? Work on MS-
DOS or Windows' Write add-on pro¬
grams or invent new applications?

To top it off, each manager fights tor
resources: programmers, staff, money.
There's only so much of everything, no
matter how big the company. Great
programmers don't fall from trees. When
you're involved with as many products as
Microsoft, you Ye got to be smart about
what to do, when to do it, and how
much to commit. Like they say: LL If it
was easy, every body'd do it.”

One area that gets resources is tele¬
phone support. The support machinery
is a thing of beau tv. Microsoft supports
abt >u t s i x tv- fi ve p rod nets.

Everything from Xenix COBOL to
Softcard for the Apple II. Imagine. Calls
get routed, fast, to the best person to
help; and the system is designed so it's
likelv the first person you get is the
“right person” to help.

The numbers that result from this arc
staggering. For example, take the week
ending September 9th, 1986. Microsoft
fielded 5,600 calls that week — for
Maci i i toxh produets a|t>no 1

So what's new at Microsoft? These
da vs, it's Microsoft Works, Sales are
great. It's not a glamour product, but it's
clean and fast and useful. A bread-and-
butter product. Nice. And it's one of
those rare products that wasn't devel¬

oped “in house." Instead, Microsoft
Wwhs was written by the people that
wrote AppleWorks. Their idea was to
develop Works then pur it out on bids.
Microsoft went after it and got it, despite
the fact that — at least in theory — it
might cur into sales of other Microsoft
products. But, like they told me, “It's
better to lose market share to yourself,
than to somebody else.” That's not
dumb, I guess. Nor arrogant.

The “Excel story" is also enlightening.
Work on Excel began under a cloud of
Jazz's impending arrival. At the time,
Lotus had never failed. Apple was count¬
ing on Lotus to propel Macintosh into
the Fortune 1000. Lotus was gonna
spend a ton of money to promote Jazz.
Microsoft was worried. And hungry.
They knew what they wanted — The
World's Greatest Spreadsheet — but
were worried that Excel would be per¬
ceived as merely gluing together Multi¬
plan and Chari.

Mike Slade, the Excel Product Manag¬
er at the time, recalls: “So we took
everybody — Gates, Shirley, everybody
— down to Apple to show 'em Excel
when it was partly done. And, you
know, we Ye demoing Excel to Jobs and
Sail ley. And Jobs is saying stuff Like *So
where's the word processor? Where's
telecommunications?' And we kept say¬
ing'No, w hat we're doing is Appropri¬
ate Integration!'"

Bur, like the ads say, “The rest are
history.” 1 n retrospect. Jazz w as the best
thing that ever happened to Excel.

And WordPerfect may have been the
best thing that ever happened to Micro¬
soft Word On Macintosh, it's Mac Write
() r M i cnjft Win d. Sin ce Mac Write 1 1 as
been “unbundled,” Word has easily out¬
distanced Mac Write in sales.

But on the IBM, it's a battle. Word vs.

\ I WordPerfect, Microsoft, in a real battle at
last, recently unveiled Microsoft Word
3,0 — a killer word processor.

Microsoft, despite being the world’s
largest software house, doesn't have an
ivoiv tower mentality. And I've got a
hunch they enjoy the scrap.

Thar Microsoft “gives good product”
isn't surprising. The surprises will likely
come later this year, when Microsoft
proves they weren’t kidding about CD-
RO M tech n o k )gy, ^

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to provide an average time: and each macro
started and stopped at the desktop.

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the exercise is playing the cursor is ear¬
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often, A control window displays a bar
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The program has a wide range of options,
L/sten allows each student or teacher to
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programs, user-set options, or an adjust¬
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start, are recommended to be the same
size as the Switcher partition, 'Tuning" of
the cache size to vary performance is easily
done. De-tuning was done in this test to set
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larger than the optimum size from the
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memory to Sw/teher. To use Switcher, either
have a lot of RAM, or turn TurboCharger off.
Which is one other nice little thing about it.
It tells you when it's off. The TurboCharger
icon on the menu bar (a user-selectable
indicator) is gone, — Michael Tollefeon

range, the pitches to be drilled on and the
rate at which they are to be exercised So,
you could select melodic and interval drills
from any scale,in any register, L/sten also
has several user-selectable levels of diffi¬
culty. The student can select key, notes,
range and speed of the exercises. In many
ways, you're left on your own to create a
lesson plan Rhythmic dictation exercises
are not provided in the present version of
Listen but are planned for a near future
release,

L/sten gives the student both a video
keyboard and guitar fretboard to use during
the drills. Either one or both can be used
during a session for the exercises, making
it handy for those who wish to translate
between two musical mediums. You can
use the video key/f ref boards with a "No
Exercise” option which lets you fool around
and load different sounds. Within the limi¬
tations of the Mac sound generator, some
of the supplied sounds are great.

Listen is friendly and easy enough to use
to almost be fun rather than 'educational."
Otherwise tedious musical training has
been presented as an enjoyable game,
L/sten can be recommended to anyone
interested in honing their musical ability,
from the novice or the dedicated amateur
to the professional who wants to brush
up, painlessly, — Peter Mengazioi

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MACRELAX ||

List Price: $99.95. Published by Arrays ,
inc. r 6711 Vaijean Ave. r Van Nuys , CA
91406. (818) 994-1899. Requires 5 12K.
Not copy protected .

MacRetax is a peculiar program in many
respects, it is billed as a relational data
base manager, but it isn't exactly that, it
bends over backwards to be easy to use and
sometimes confuses the user as a result. It
seems to be quite powerful in some re¬
spects and remarkably limited in others.
What MacRelax appears to be is a relation¬
al list manager, and the key question is:
why would anyone want a relational list
manager?

A list manager is a specific type of low-
level data base application. It stores infor¬

mation in a tabular, column format making
it easy to manage lists of names, address¬
es, etc, A list manager is essentially a
computerized index card system. It doesn't
have a lot of power in managing extensive
amounts of data, it isn't very flexible in the
types of data it can handle, and its form
generation capabilities are usually fairly
limited,

MacRelax takes this concept and turns it
sideways a bit. A MacRetax data base is a
collection of from one to eight flies. Each
file is an individual collection of data stored
in fields. There is a maximum of 16 fields
per file A record, which in a typical data
base consists of one complete listing, such
as one person's personnel data, is some¬
what difficult to define in the MacRelax
schema, because related files may have
parts of a record in more than one place.

For example, the tutorial in the MacRelax
manual takes you through the creation of a
personnel data base. Some of the data,
such as name, address and phone number
end up in one file, while date of hire. Social
Security Number and other bits go into a
second file. These two files are linked by
the social security field, Classified informa¬
tion such as salary and bonuses are in a
third file.

In everyday data base parlance, these
files would actually be lists within a file.

which is why the terminology of MacRelax
sometimes gets confusing. The manual is a
necessary tool to get started. Once you
understand its organization, however, Mac -
Relax is very easy to use. It does have on¬
line help which varies from the useless to
the moderately helpful.

Because the various list files are all kept
under one data base umbrella, MacRelax is
very flexible in the handling of list-based
data. You can pull data from various lists
into a single report, which does not have to
conform to the tabic style format. MacReiax
offers both alphabetical and numeric index¬
ing for quick sorting.

MacRelax is a bit weird in concept, and it
has some very strange aspects. While the
name of a field (Last Name, First Name,
etc,) can be fairly long, the space allotted
for field names in the display is fixed to a
length of about 10 characters, As a result,
many field names are chopped and only a
portion of them is seen This happens in
several areas of the program.

MacRelax might be very useful for some¬
one who does nothing more than handle
long lists and who needs to keep some
parts of a list separate from the rest, but it
seems overpriced for what It does. The
oddbalf nature of its design makes it more
trouble to learn than the results justify. —
MOW

MACINUSE |$tt$

Usr Price. $49 Published by Soft View,
4820 Adohr Lane. Suite F r Camarillo, CA
93010 , (805) 388-2626 . Version 1.0 re¬
viewed. Not copy protected.

MaclnUse is a deceptively simple pro¬
gram that could be one of the most valu¬
able assets to your software library. The
simple part: MaclnUse tracks the amount of
time spent working in an application and
saves the information as a text file. Once
installed, it works in the background and
quietly records the amount of time your
Macintosh is tied up by an application. This
record can provide the documentation you
need in order to deduct your equipment
costs at tax time, give detailed breakdowns
of time for client billing or help track
employee productivity,

A simple installation program places Mac-
InUse on any disk. MaclnUse automatically
Kicks in on startup and records whatever
application is in use. When you close the

application, a new dialog box appears ask¬
ing whether the use was personal or busi¬
ness in nature, and provides a space for a
detailed comment, such as details of pro¬
jects or the names of clients for whom work
was being done. The time record and com¬
ments are saved in a text file that MaclnUse
automatically updates after each usage.

In a floppy based system, MaclnUse
should be installed on every System disk.
Hard disk systems are much easier. Just
install MaclnUse once and it records every¬

thing you do from startup to shutdown.
MaclnUse is compatible with MFS, HFS and
all Mac variations.

There are some applications that give
MaclnUse trouble, particularly Sw/tcher, If
you run two or more applications under
Switcher , MaclnUse will record the time
only as time spent in Sw/fcher. Other pro¬
gram that cannot be tracked include games
or any programs that perform a shut-down
operation on quitting and applications that
bypass the Finder.

MaclnUse data can be accessed by any
program that reads text files, which means
most word processors, spreadsheets and
data base programs. Templates are includ¬
ed on the MaclnUse disk for MacWrite,
Word, Multiplan and Excel , and there is
even a predefined Excel macro on the disk
that takes Mac/ndse data and charts it
automatically.

MaclnUse is incredibly simple but can
save you many times the purchase price. It
might just be the best $49 you’M ever
spend. — MOW

TASS TIMES IN
TONE TOWN Hi

List Price: $44.95. Published by Activision t
2350 Bayshore Pkwy, Mountain View r CA
94043. (415) 960-0410. Copy protected.

Before you undertake any adventure, you
usually need certain basic paraphernalia to

ensure a strong start. This usually takes the
form of weapons of some kind, spell books
or armor, Tass Times in Tone Tow^i may be
the first one that requires you to get a
trendy haircut — not to mention a new
jumpsuit and a M hooplet. M

Tass Times is a graphic adventure with
what seem to be punk overtones. In search
for your missing grandfather, you follow the

dog. Spot, through an electric hoop. (I'm
sorry; that's the best description I can come
up with.) On the other side, you find Spot
can not only talk, but has changed his
name to Ennio, So much for tradition.
Tone Town citizens take clothes very
seriously. So seriously, in fact, that if you
don't get duded up pretty quickly, you're
branded a "tourist" and insulted at every

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The plot of Tass Times is not particularly
new: it's your basic find-it-get-it-and-get-
out story, although Snarl may be the only
master monster who's involved in a real
estate scam on the side. Most of the
gameplay takes place through on-screen
iconographies, but typing is required from
time to time. Double-clicking on an object
picks it up and transfers it to inventory, and
a compass is provided for clicking off in the
right direction.

Once in a while — actually, more often
than you’d like — Ennio "smells Snarl

meat," just about his only useful skill.
When this happens, its best to head back
the way you came or, better still, just wait it
out. The recommended number of waits to
ensure safety is 15, This is far too many.

The puzzles are pretty good, although
some of them seem difficult because they
dont have much intuitive appeal, such as
throwing a piece of (the right) mushroom at
an animated eye and ear. Or buying (and
wearing) a kinky black mask.

On the whole I enjoyed the game, al¬
though there were some minor (and, I
expect, easily correctable) annoyances. In

the tique, for example, where it is impera¬
tive that you buy a jumpsuit, the only items
on the rack seem to be shirts, (Typing in
your request does the trick.) Activision's
press release mentions great animation,
but as far as 1 can determine the onty things
animated in the Mac version are a few eyes,
ears and a clock pendulum. Once in a while
you get an off-the-wall response, ! tried
talking to Ennio and got 'What do you want
to ennio?" I had no answer for that one.

Tass Times in Tone Town is recommend¬
ed mainly for novice adventurers, or sea¬
soned pros who feel like showing off. — LK

MAC3D 2.0 tttt

List Price . $249.95, Published by Challeng¬
er Software , 18350 Kedzie Ave.. Home-
wood, It 40430 (312) 957-3475. Not copy
protected.

Mac3D is not a new program in these
pages. Ads began appearing back in our
premier issue, making many promises but
ultimately not quite delivering on them.
Finally with version 1.1, the program began
to look and work like the power graphics
program promised. The new version, 2.0, is
a major improvement, with many new fea¬
tures and much less of the instability that
plagued earlier versions

Essentially, Mac3D is to three-dimen¬
sional drawing what MacDraw is to the two-
dimensional world. Primitive objects, such
as spheres, cubes, cylinders, and tori are
created in one step A wide range of edit¬
able fill pattern options, high precision
editing of ail of a shape s vertices, dimen¬
sioning lines and an intuitive user interface
are features 2.0 shares with 1.1.

The most important improvement in this
version is the inclusion of shading with up
to six light sources, and full PostScript
support for printing gray shades on a Post¬
Script-equipped printer such as the Laser¬

Writer. The position and intensity of each
light can be easily modified, and an option
allows light sources to be finely placed in
space using Cartesian coordinates, The
ambient light effect is also adjustable,
MacSD 2.0 also allows users to define

custom primitive tools: a complex object
made up of various parts can be placed as a
single tool in the tool palette, and the tiny
tool icon can be separately edited. There
are also some new primitives, including a
geodesic sphere and equilateral polygon.
Also, any two-dimensional shape can be
extruded to create a three-dimensional
shape, with fully definable depth.

The program's performance has been
improved dramatically over previous ver¬
sions, and graphic progress meters have
been implemented for long processing
times, a feature that other 3D programs
could benefit by.

This program has pull-down menus spe¬
cifically configured for the 128K ROMs in
the Mac Plus and 512E — some commands
are not visible until the menu is scrolled.

Registered owners of version 1.1 can
upgrade to 2 0 for S30 fee. a reasonable
price considering the many new features.
Mac3D 2.0 has matured into a stable,
useful program that satisfies many graphic
needs. — DB

PACKIT111% 4414

List Price: $10. $10 additional for printed
manual. Published by Harry R. Chesley,
1850 Union Street , #360, San Francesco.
CA 94123. (415) 563-2491 (modem only}.
Not copy protected

Its mark can be seen on most BBS
systems, public networks, and just about
anywhere that a Mac telecommunicator is
likely to be found It has established itself
as a standard without true competition,
without the grace of expensive advertising
campaigns and without elaborate market¬
ing schemes, It s absolutely utilitarian, nev¬
er bombs, is a cinch to use and is regularly
updated. It's an essential utility to anyone
serious about telecommunications on the
Mac. It s Packit.

Currently in revision III. version 1.2,
Packit offers various functions that are part
of day-to-day communications life Its main
function is to electronically glue" two or
more files together to send between two
Macintoshes. Many of the major communi¬
cations services (CompuServe, GEnie, Del¬

phi, etc,), as well as most public bulletin
board systems (BBS) store multiple related
programs and documents as single files, to
facilitate uploading and downloading Any
file with a "PIT" extension is probably a
Packit file.

But Packit has more talents than just
putting files together and pulling them
apart — which broadens its appeal to more
than just telecommunications enthusiasts.
It is capable of two levels of password
encryption — one is a relatively standard
method (a variation of the exclusive or' 1
encryption), and the other based on the
government-standard DES (Data Encryption
Standard). DES encryption takes much
longer than the standard process, but is
also much harder (if not impossible) to
defeat It can compress files (using the
Huffman encoding method), and also splits
large files over various disks, automatically
and flawlessly.

When packing and unpacking files, a
progress meter depicts the percentage of
the file that has been processed, as well as
graphically displaying the amount of com¬
paction Each file is listed in a window as

it's being packed or unpacked. Specific
files can be skipped over when unpacking a
file.

Packit is shareware — the latest version
can be downloaded from most on-line ser¬

vices, and the author requests a modest
$10 fee, a true bargain considering Packet's
usefulness The manual is another $10,
although most telecommunications users
can manage the program without it. All in
all. this program is a best buy, and should
be on everyone s list of utilities to own. —
DB Eg

JANUARY 1987 MACUSER51

Go where computer adventures
have never gone before. But you’ve
got to be careful.

De/a Vu: A Nightmare Comes
True" and Mind scape's new
Unin viterf put you i n t h e ki nd of t i g ht
spots that make droplets of sweat
appear on your mouse.

MacUser Magazine and the
Software Publishers Association
both named Deja Vu: A Nightmare
Comes True the best entertainment
software program for 1985. And they
had good reason.

Point ana shoot Just dick OPERA TE , your weapon,
and your target.

With close to a megabyte of
involving graphics to manipulate
with the ease of a mouse, you're free
to do your detective work. Not that
your problems are simple. You've
awakened in a drug induced stupor
with the police and a gruesome gang
of hoods on your tail.To make your
plight worse, you don't remember
who you are.

So you've got to be on your toes.
Grab your mouse. Aim your .38. And
deter a threat without wasting time.

Examine the newest Mindscape
thriller. It's not a sequel. But it is
sensational.

Uninvited lets you take a
terrifying journey of fear through the
eerie confines of a dark, mysterious
mansion. Uninvited really goes bump
in the night with full digitized sound.

Animation puts the locals, a

collection of demons and specters,
in an exciting new light as they
step out of the shadows. It won't take
long for you to discover that they
prefer not to have house guests.

You've got quite a mystery to
solve. And your hide to save. So
don't wait for a formal invitation.

Consume

Consume the kind of excitement
you would do almost anything to
avoid in the real world. Experience
what MacUser called"... a complete
breakthrough in gaming!’

Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True
and Uninvited are available now
to maximize your Macintosh’” for spell¬
binding action. Enjoy them both,

And discover how much fun
murder and mystery can be.

Soft warn that challenges the

mind.

Uninvited

Developed by ICGM Simulations. Inc

U R V

►THE EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARDS FOR 1986

— integration of charting and ana¬
lytical capabilities.

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unprecedented productivity power.
One user summed it up by saying
that before he does anything, he
checks first to see if it can be done in
MORE. More often than not, it can.
A superb product which uses the
Macintosh interface to the fullest.

BEST NEW BUSINESS
ACCOUNTING PROGRAM

Insight, from Layered, combines
power and intelligence. It's not the
be-all, end-all accounting package
that many arc looking for, but it's an
excellent and powerful product.
(Editors Special Note: Never buy a
business accounting program without
your accountant^ explicit approval.
Buying what we fed is the best will do
you no good if it can } t generate the
reports your accountant requires in the
form required.)

BEST NEW COMMUNICATION
PROGRAM

MicroPhone from Software Ven¬
tures is our winner, although last
year's winners, Hayes’ Smartcom II
and Frcesoft's Red Ryder, don't
give much away to this impressive
newcomer. MicroPhone has both
power and tremendous ease of use,
with its "Watch Me" auto-scripting
feature breaking new ground. This
feature moves novices immediately
into the category of power telecom¬
municators.

BEST NEW ART/GRAPHICS
APPLICATION

This was a rough category in
which to pick a winner. We've
awarded the top prize to Ann Arbor
Saltworks' FullPaint, which has tak¬
en the wonders of the paint classic
and made them even better. And
they said it couldn't be done. Trail¬
ing by only a hair is MacBillboard
by CE Software. And special honor¬
able mention to ComicWorks and
Graphic Works from Mindscapc.

BEST NEW BUSINESS GRAPHICS
PROGRAM

Without question, this category
goes to Cricket Graph from Cricket
Software, a powerful — and useful

BEST NEW MUSIC PROGRAM

Ketcc's Studio Session simply
sang out here. This amazing (both
graphically and sonicallv) program
manages to extract six voices from
the Mac's four-voice sound chip.
The sound quality, when played
through a good sound system, is
astounding. That's due to the quality
of Studio Session's instrument files,
which were created using Kette’s
Audio Digitizer and Sound Cap
software. That combination deserves
an honorable mention on its own,
and allows users to create superb
sounds for their Studio Session.

BEST NEW DATA MANAGER

FileMaker Plus from Fore¬
thought is a standout in a field
crowded with superb programs. It
lias everything you could want in a
data manager and excels at forms
generation. It's the result of a pub¬
lisher listening to users and modify¬
ing and vastly improving the already
excellent FileMaker.

Honorable mentions here to
Double and Runtime Helix and
Omnis 3+, two programs of vast
relational power. Both have runtime
packages and have spawned many
vertical applications. And a special
thank you to dMac III for allowing
all those "other" PC users to bring
their dBase files over to rheir Maes.

BEST NEW INTEGRATED SOFTWARE

Microsoft Works is our winner.
While Excel is still the standard for
all microcomputers, Works doesn't
give much away to any program.
Indeed with communications and
innovative word processing mod¬
ules, it is a far more complete inte¬
grated product.

Mac Plus owners should not ig¬
nore Release IA of Jazz by Lotus.
Its Hot View feature is still unique
and a true delight on a machine with
enough speed and memory to effec¬
tively use this large program.

BEST NEW PERSONAL FINANCE
PROGRAM

MacMoney by Survivor Software
is by far the easiest and most power¬

ful program of its kind. And since it
now interfaces directly with Macln-
Tax (see below), it's even more
valuable. There’s really no competi¬
tion for that duo.

BEST NEW PERSONAL TAX
PROGRAM

Our runaway wanner in this cate¬
gory is MacI n Tax (SoftView). This
powerful program will turn out all
the tax forms you'll ever need (in¬
cluding 1040's) on the LaserWriter
in IRS-acceptable formats.

BEST NEW SPREADSHEET

MacCalc from Bravo Technol¬
ogies offers power and tremendous
speed for a very low price. This
program gives you more number-
crunching bang for your buck than
any other (including Excel).

BEST NEW DESKTOP PUBLISHING
PROGRAM

Last year's winner, PageMaker
from Aldus, srili dominates the mar¬
ket, But our choice for the best of
the 1986 offerings is ReadySetGo
2,1 from Manhattan Graphics, with
an honorable mention to Boston
Software's MacPublisher II.

BEST NEW DESKTOP
COMMUNICATIONS PACKAGE

A clear field to inBox from Think
Technologies, a sophisticated Email
system for the office. Saves time and
keeps the desktop under your xMac
from getting snowed under with
memos and files. (inBox is in con¬
stant use around the MacUser offices
and has cleared several acres of paper
from various editors' desks.)

BEST NEW PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE

TML Pascal from TML Systems
swept this field early in the year, and
is our winner. It offers the ability' to
create standalone applications, fea¬
tures for advanced programmers,
comparability with older Pascals and
great price value. Still it wasn't a
runaway winner and honorable men-
tions must be awarded to Think
Technologies’ Lightspeed C and
Lightspeed Pascal, Microsoft BA¬
SIC Interpreter 3.0 and Zedcor's
ZBasic.

54MACUSER JANUARY 1987

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BEST NEW WORD PROCESSOR

The kudos here go to WriteNow
(T/Makcr), an improved MaeWrite
with a built-in spelling checker is an
ideal beginner- to-medium level
word processor for just about every¬
one. Next year the field could get
crowded — with Word 3.0 (Micro¬
soft), HabaWord (Haba/Arrays),
Laser Author (FIT), and Word
Perfect (SSI), to name a few — but
this one will still look good.

BEST NEW ORGANIZER

MORE from Living Videotext
created a whole new productivity
category, desktop presentations.
With its superb outlining ability and
unique tree and charting capabilities,
this program has no peers.

A special honorable mention goes
to Acta from Symmetry. This is an
outliner nearly the equal of MORE\s
outliner, and it's a desk accessory!

BEST NEW DESK ACCESSORY

1986 could well be called the year
of the desk accessory. Several hun¬
dred DAs are now available. Picking
a single winner proved impossible,
so we arc declaring a tie, with prizes
to Cortland’s Top Desk package and
Batteries Included’s totally new Bat-
teryPak. Top Desk’s Menu Key
and View are among the most useful
and unique DAs yet. And Battery-
Pak’s DiskTools is simply the most
necessary and best DA for users
running HFS.

There are so many honorable
mentions (apart from DAs like Acta
and Thunder! that are honored in
other categories) that a partial list
will have to suffice: Turbo DL
(Mainstay), Smart Alarms (JAM
Software), BigCaps (Dubl-Click),
MockPackage (CE Software) and
HFS Locator Plus (FBI Software).

BEST NEW SPELLING CHECKER :

Desk Accessory

The best DA-tvpe spelling check¬
er, and best overall, is Batteries In-
eluded’s Thunder!, which works in¬
side virtually any application while it
runs. It’s easy to use and has an
excellent dictionary. Our honorable
mention. Target’s MacLightniog,
ran a close second in the editor’s
voting.

BEST NEW SPELLING CHECKER:
Standalone

The best standalone spelling
checker — by a wide margin — was
Greene, Johnson’s SpeDswell, a

powerful and reliable program. It
has a large (80,000 words) dictio¬
nary, and goes after incorrect hy¬
phenation, homonyms, and contrac¬
tions.

THE BEST OF 1986 IN BRIEF

BEST PRODUCT: MORE (Living Videotext)

BUSINESS ACCOUNTING PROGRAM: Insight (Layered)

COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM: Microphone (Software Ventures)

ART/GRAPHICS APPLICATION: FuilPaint (Ann Arbor Softworks)

Honorable Mention: MacBillboard, ComicWorks and GraphicWorks.

BUSINESS GRAPHICS PROGRAM: Cricket Graph (Cricket Software)

MUSIC PROGRAM: Studio Session (Kette)

Honorable Mention: Sound Cap

DATA MANAGER: FileMaker Plus (Forethought)

Honorable Mention: Double Helix, Runtime Helix, Omnis 3+, dMac lit

INTEGRATED SOFTWARE: Works (Microsoft)

Honorable Mention: Jazz Release fA

PERSONAL FINANCE PROGRAM: MacMoney (Survivor Software)

PERSONAL TAX PROGRAM: MactnTax (SoftView)

BEST NEW SPREADSHEET: MacCalc (Bravo Tecnnologies)

DESKTOP PUBLISHING PROGRAM: fleadySefGo 2.1 (Manhattan Graphics)
Honorable Mention: MacPublisher II

DESKTOP COMMUNICATIONS PACKAGE: inBox (Think Technologies)

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: TML Pascal (TML Systems)

Honorable Mention: Lightspeed C, Lightspeed Pascal. Microsoft BASIC Interpreter 3.0,
and ZBasic

ORGANIZER: MORE (Living Videotext)

Honorable Mention: Acta

DESK ACCESSORY: (Tie) Top Desk (Cortland) and BatteryPak (Batteries Included)
Honorable Mention: Turbo DL, Smart Alarms, BigCaps. MockPackage,

HFS Locator Pius

SPELLING CHECKER, DESK ACCESSORY: Thunder! (Batteries Included)

Honorable Mention: MacLightning

SPELLING CHECKER, STANDALONE: Speliswell (Greene, Johnson)

CHILDREN’S PROGRAM: KidsTime (Great Wave Software)

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM, ADVENTURE: Uninvited (Mindscape)
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM, B0ARDGAME: Shanghai (Activision)

PERIPHERAL: MacBottom HO -21 Hard disk (PCPC)

Honorable Mention: DataFrame 20, GCC FX /20, Micah 20AT (internal hard disk)

HARDWARE INNOVATION: Full Page Display (Radius)

MOST INNOVATIVE MAC PRODUCT: PictureBase (Symmetry)

MOST INNOVATIVE CONCEPT: Softstrip (Cauzin)

BEST UTILITY: Fedit Plus (MacMaster Systems)

Honorable Mention: MacNosy, HFS Locator Plus, Tempo, TMON

BEST PRODUCT UNDER SI00: Reflex for the Mac (Borland International)

BEST PRODUCT UNDER S50: MacInUse (SoftView)

JANUARY 1987 MACUSER55

►THE EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARDS FOR 19864

BEST NEW CHILDREN'S PROGRAM

KidsTime from Great Wave Soft¬
ware is the winner in this category,
with five excellent kids' programs in
one package, including music and
word processing. This is an area
where Mac programs are under-rep¬
resented — we hope to see a lot
more good programs next year,

BEST NEW ENTERTAINMENT
PROGRAM : Adventure

Our adventure pick is Uninvited

by Mindscape, which brings (what¬
ever category it is exactly) to new
heights (or as the case may be, lows).

BEST NEW ENTERTAINMENT
PROGRAM: Boardgame

Activision's Shanghai is the clear
winner here, a game so addictive that
the government might have to step
in and control its use,

BEST NEW PERIPHERAL

This award had to go to a SCSI

hard disk, one of the major new
categories in 1986. The best so far is
PCPC's MacBottom HD-21. Its
speed, reliability and quietness earn
it top position. However, it's closely
followed by SupcrMac Technol¬
ogies' DataFrame 20 and GCC 5 s
FX/20. The best internal hard disk
was the Mieah 20AT*

BEST NEW HARDWARE INNOVATION

The winner here without question
is the Full Page Display from Radi¬
us, which brought the wide screen to
the Mac, FPD allows you to mouse
over to your original screen and
back; a real boon for working with
large-scale documents that normally
involve a lot of scrolling about.

MOST INNOVATIVE MAC PRODUCT

Picture Base from Symmetry in¬
troduced a new way of storing and
retrieving graphic images. It and its
format have already become a stan¬
dard.

MOST INNOVATIVE CONCEPT

This one goes to the Cauzin Soft-
strip, for its simple, inexpensive
method of distributing programs
and data — on paper rather than
magnetic media,

BEST NEW UTILITY

The winner in this crowded field
is MacMaster Systems' Fedit Plus,
This powerhouse belongs in every
user's library, as it can be profitably
used by both the first-time Mac user
and the most advanced backer. In
fact, both will need it sooner or later.

Special mentions to Jasik Designs'
MacNosy, PBPs HFS Locator
Plus, Affinity's Tempo, and
ICOM's TMON.

BEST PRODUCT UNDER $100

Reflex for the Mac takes it here.
It's an easy to use relational data base
of surprising power.

BEST PRODUCT UNDER $50

The winner here is MacInUse
from Soft View, a transparent pro¬
gram which logs exactly how your
Mac is being used without you hav¬
ing to do a thing. It can be custom¬
ized, and anyone who claims a busi¬
ness deduction on his Mac should
definitely have this program.

OFF THE WALL AWARDS

Here are a few programs we felt we really had to mention, although for obvious
reasons they donH belong in the mainstream awards. Sorry, guys, no impressive
statuette for these; close, but no cigar.

SPECIAL AWARD FOR MOST RELEASED VERSIONS IN ONE WEEKEND

Freesoft’s Red Ryder managed three real releases on the weekend of April 25th to the
27th. Scott Watson, the programmer, was attending the Mac show in Chicago, and as
soon as he gave out a version he was beseiged with requests for improvements. So
each night he went to his hotel room and cranked out a new version! That’s the sort of
dedication that makes picking these award winners so hard.

WORST RELEASE

System 3.0 from Apple. This one had the not-too-useful ability to destroy your files,
without asking your permission first. If you find a copy, get rid of it at once. Don't wait,
just get rid of if. The latest System (currently 3.2) is available free at your Apple dealer if
you bring in a blank disk.

BEST VAPORWARE

MindWrite: they promised and promised, we waited and waited. We’re still waiting.

BEST ORPHAN SUPPORT

For you folks who, like our publisher, paid $10,000 cash for a Lisa in 1983, and
another $3,000 to upgrade it to Mac status, this one goes to TurboCharger (Nevins
Microsystems). With its help, you can now bring your Lisa up to speed — well, almost.

MOST POWERFUL “MAC”

The Prodigy 4 from Levco with its 68020 processor and 68881 math coprocessor
and $7000 price tag only looks like a Mac. Its speed and power put it solidly into the
minicomputer category.

MOST INSECURE MAC PUBLISHER

While we are happy to publish subscription ads from MacTImes, MACazine or any
other competing publication (and vice versa), the very idea of such a thing seems to be
enough to give Macworld the willies. They have even gone so far as to obliterate
reference to other Mac publications from the ads they do accept. Maybe they know
something we don't?

THE “WHAT WILL THEY COME UP WITH NEXT?” DEPARTMENT

Weil, Infocom certainly deserves some mention here for coming up with the first
computer game that comes with scratch-’n'-sniff and plays on three decency levels:
Steve Meretzky’s Leather Goddesses of Phobos. You can play as male or female; the
game determines this by which toilet you go into at the beginning. IBM owners get a
"boss key" — but it’s not the advantage you might think. Close examination will show
the “business” screen to be a spreadsheet for marital aids.

"Honorable mention" in this category to Mike Saenz's MacPIaymate, from Pegasus
Productions. Use your Imagination — you won’t be far wrong.

56MACUSER JANUARY 1987

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MacUser and Apple join together to honor the
best and brightest of the desktop publishers.

■BY THE EDITORS

LONG BEFORE THE WORDS “DESK-
top Publishing” became one of the
main catch phrases in the personal
computer world, people were using
their PCs to “desktop publish.” And
from the day the Mac was intro¬
duced, it was the desktop publishing
machine. Although there was a
dearth of software, there was Mac¬
Paint . Attractive invitations, livers
and ads began cropping up every¬
where. No bulletin board or mail
box was immune.

Soon after we started MacUser , we
started to receive a steady trickle of
people's efforts. They were proud of
them (almost always with good rea¬
son), and wanted to share them. A
year later the trickle had become a
steady stream, aided in no small part
by the excellent programs (such as
PageMaker and ReadySetGo) de¬
signed to facilitate just such work.

We felt we should both share the
best of this work with you, and
recognize and honor the creators of
the best desktop publishing work. A
contest, especially if we could offer
substantial prizes, seemed the best
way to proceed. We approached Ap¬
ple and others with ideas.

They were as enthusiastic as we

JUDGE THE JUDGES FOR YOURSELF

FELIX

Felix Dennis, founder and publisher of
MacUser, who commutes so often between
London and New York they have a seat named
after him on the Concorde! He is a devoted
desktop publisher, and has been creating and
producing magazines all his working life. He
has been a firm believer in the Mac from
before the ark.

“I had some doubts when we discussed
launching this contest and was concerned
that we would receive a great many enthusi¬
astically created, but poorly designed, en¬
tries. This turned out to be nonsense and I
was both heartened at the general level of
design and simply stunned at the attention to
detail and sheer volume of work on display."

He has firmly threatened to make this
contest an annual event.

Reese Jones is founder and president of the
Berkeley Macintosh Users Group (BMUG). He
has been involved in the development, set-up
and operation of several self-service PC
publishing facilities in the Berkeley/San Fran¬
cisco area.

Reese is currently working towards a PhD
in Biophysics at the University of California at
Berkeley. As part of a research team at
Lawrence Berkely Laboratory, he is develop¬
ing PET and NMR brain imaging techniques to
investigate abnormal brain chemistry in
schizophrenia.

He was aided in his judging by other BMUG
graphics experts including Harry Critchfield,
Barbara Chan and Raines Cohen.

Amanda North is Apple Computer's manag¬
er of desktop publishing programs. In that
capacity she is responsible for planning and
managing all of the marketing programs for
the desktop publishing market. Included in
these are marketing communications, events
and research, sales development and vertical
market studies.

Prior to joining Apple Computer, Amanda
held the position of marketing manager for
Impell Corporation's computer systems
group. Before that, she was a corporate
finance analyst with Kidder, Peabody & Com¬
pany. She currently resides in Palo Alto,
California.

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were required to list all
(he entries.

were. Apple Computer generously
put up a LaserWriter Plus as the
Grand Prize and others made sub¬
stantial contributions. All that re¬
mained was to announce the contest,
gather together the numerous entries
and select the winners.

Would that it were that simple!
We were nearly overwhelmed (both
physically and scmorily) by the ava¬
lanche of entries. The boxes that we
eventually sent to the judges
weighed over 60 pounds each! We
received hundreds of entries (we had
hoped for maybe 200, the final total
was at least double that). And pick¬
ing a winner in each category was no
simple task. The overall quality level
was amazingly high. The rest of this
article will be devoted to showing
you the winning entries. Future arti¬
cles will detail the techniques that
were used to create some of the
entries; techniques that you will be
able to use in your own work.

All entries were rated on a scale
from 1 to 10 in originality, technical
proficiency, aesthetic appeal and ef¬
fective use of the medium. Our six
judges (sec sidebar) filled out long
scorecards and wc added up the
results. The scorecards asked for

Tim Onosko is an author and journalist who
specializes in writing about technology and
popular culture. He has also written on
national affairs, defense, the arts and enter¬
tainment, and has written and traveled extern
sively in Japan.

A regular contributor to Omni and New
Look, tie is also a contributing editor of Video
and Creative Computing, and a regular com¬
mentator un TV’s The New Tech Times.”

Tim has authored several books, including
Funtand, USA, Wasn't the Future Wonderful?
and Getting the Most From the Commodore
64.

He currently resides in Madison, Wiscon¬
sin.

comments, and many of them were
revealing. Several themes that ran
through the comments involved pro¬
fessional values such as use of proper
typefaces, justification and hyphen¬
ation (where appropriate) and over¬
all readability. IPs easy to use the
Mac to create very original, great
looking material that simply can’t be
read. That’s not the point of publish¬
ing. Good art direction is also neces¬
sary, Good design doesn’t just hap¬
pen. Like good writing it is the
result of hard work.

The judges generally felt that en¬
tries exhibited high technical profi-

Teary Ulick is the owner and publisher of
Personal Publishing, The Magazine for Desk¬
top Publishers, and the author of Personal
Publishing with the Macintosh, featuring Pa¬
geMaker 1.2. He has also founded several
other publishing-related magazines, includ¬
ing Publishing Trade and Professional Pub¬
lishing , and MagazineMICRO, a newsletter.
Terry has written more than 100 articles on
Ihe art of publishing: and 50 reviews on
publishing technology products.

Beyond his continuing work with Personal
Publishing, he is finishing two books (sched¬
uled for Spring 1987 release) on desktop
publishing.

He currently Jives in the Chicago area.

ciency. The winners were those who
mixed together the proper amounts
of originality and common sense.

We feel that the winning entries
can hold their own in any publishing
environment. They {and many of the
near winners) are not only attractive
examples of what the Mae can do,
but great sources of ideas and tech¬
niques for you.

Don’t just look at the following
pages as illustrations of contest win¬
ners. Instead, try to see why they
won and how they were done. And
maybe next year you’ll he the Grand
Prize winner.

Chuck Weigand is a retired LkS. Navy
nuclear submarine officer. He is currently an
engineering specialist at the Electric Boat
Division of General Dynamics.

He’s heen involved with computers for
about 16 years and is a well-known freelance
writer, writing primarily on Macintosh related
subjects. Desktop publishing is an area at
prime interest to him, particularly word pro¬
cessing, graphics and page layout. He sees a
bright future for the Mac in this area. He is
currently technical editor lor MACazine and
contributing editor lor Personal Publishing.
Chuck is, by his own description, "a latter-
day Connecticut Yankee!”

JANUARY 1987 MACUSER59

DESKTOP PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR

GRAND PRIZE WINNER/MICHAEL GREEN

...it puls you on Ihe fast track.

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Zen and the Art of the Macin¬
tosh is a most unusual book. It is
a tour de force of MacPaint
technique. It was created entire¬
ly in that program and primed
out on a LaserWriter* In short t
what you see is what you get.

No entry inspired more heat¬
ed comment among the judges.
Some thought it head and shoul¬
ders above the competition,
while others, recognizing its
technical excellence, com*
plained that too much of its

GENERAL WINNER/EMIGRE GRAPHICS

Emigre Magazine uses spe¬
cially designed fonts throughout.
The fonts were designed using
FONTasiic and FONTographer.

The actual copy is created in
Mac Write to facilitate copy edit¬
ing and proofreading. The fin¬

ished text is then formatted for
typesetting in MacWrite (for gal¬
ley printouts) or in PageMaker
(for fully composed layouts).
Special headline fonts and
graphics are designed in Mac¬
Paint or MacDraw or simply
written in PostScript, and added
to the text. Final output is gen¬
erated using both bit-mapped
and PostScript fonts using both
LaserWriters and Linotronic
printers.

The special fonts grew from
the publisher’s need for unique
and more effective fonts than
those otherwise available for the
Macintosh. The fonts are not
simply copies of traditional ana¬
log typefaces. Their forms are
derived from the logic of the
digital grid and the coarse reso-

parentage was apparent on every'
page. They felt that great desk¬
top publishing efforts should not
cry out: “I was done on a Mac/ 1
Overall, though, Zen and . . .
provides inspiration and good
advice to many. Writers, graphic

artists and desktop publishers
can all read it and gain insights
that will improve their own
work. And it's fun to just plain
read. Running Press Book Pub¬
lishers, 125 South 22nd Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19103 ,

lution characteristics are incor¬
porated as design elements.
Fonts of this coarse resolution
make attractive, strongly charac¬
teristic headline fonts when en¬
larged, Digital type designed by
Zuzana Licko. Art direction by
Rudy VanderLans. 2431 Russell,
Berkeley, CA 94705 1 (415) 841 -
4161 or 845-902L

6QMACUSER JANUAR Y 1987

BOOKS WINNER/ ELAINE MARCUS & RANDY GRANOVETTER

Making It Easy: Crafts and
Cooking Activities is a special
textbook for special people. The
subtitle of this wonderful book is
"Skill Building for Handicapped
Learners," The small illustra¬
tions and section icons were
created in MacPaint MacDraw

templates were created for stan¬
dard items. Layout and text were
then created entirely in Mac-
Draw, with Switcher being used
to transfer artwork.

Draft or proof copies were
printed on an I mage Writer,
while camera-ready pages were

printed on a LaserWriter,

The project would have been
easier if PageMaker or MacPub-
lisher was available and bug
free, but unfortunately, that was
not the case. Still, this book is
estimated to have cost 30 to 35
percent less than the normal

production cost of a book its
size. The use of computers to do
all aspects of the work also
allowed the work to be easily
divided between the two au¬
thors.

VORT Corporation, PO Box
60132, Palo Alto, CA 94306.

MAKING IT EASY:

Crafts and Cooking Activities

V Skill Building far JlanditappaJ Ia’j.ttk.tv,

NEWSLETTERS WINNER/ SIMON TUCKETT

Graphic Perspective is a new
and exciting newsletter covering
the desktop publishing field. Its
production will only use the
current state of the art.
According to the publishers:
“This publication was produced
entirely on Apple Macintosh
computers. Text entry and layout
was accomplished in Just Text
utilizing Helvetica and Times
Roman typeface families. With
the exception of pages 8 & 9 all
object-oriented illustrations
were created in MacDraw and
then converted to pure Post¬
Script with Posta-Matic, Bit¬
mapped images were created
with MacPaint, ThunderScan

and LaserTools. Graphic effects
and type modes for the publica¬
tion were written entirely in
PostScript, All files were con¬
verted to PostScript before be¬

ing proofed on an Apple Laser¬
Writer Plus, Final plate-ready
film was produced by download¬
ing those same files to Amper¬
sand Typographers' Allied Lino-

ADVERTISING WINNER/ LINDA CARDONE

tronic L300 imagesetter.
Absolutely no paste up w r as nec¬
essary 1 ' Ashley House, 176 Wick-
steed Avenue , Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M4G 2B6.

The Joy of Crafts is one of
several pieces that was included
in a direct mail package that
announced the Grand Opening
of a new, small business. The
whole package (which included
a newsletter and an invitation)
was put together in only 72

hours. The text was prepared
and formatted in Word. Line art
was ThunderScanned and
touched up in MacPaint Some
of the ornaments came from
Volume 1 of the Paste-Ease clip
art package. The font Is Adobe’s
Garamond, And everything was
put together in PageMaker.

One particular problem was
the lack of support for downloa¬
dable fonts such as Garamond in
PageMaker. When text was
placed into PageMaker it was
displayed and reprogrammed as
Helvetica. The process was far
more difficult than it should
have been. The publishers were

often reduced to waiting for bit¬
maps to print when a product
with downloadable fonts would
have been finished long before.
This also points out the need for
a good laser spooler. Card One
Enterprises. Suite One, 55

South Street, Concord, NH
03301, (603) 228-IDE A,

GENERAL RUNNER-UP /PATRICKBRiNTON & STEVEN ENGLANDER

DESKTOP PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR

Oriental Dance Poster; The
arch was ThunderScanned from
an original drawing, and then

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almost totally rebuilt in Mac¬
Paint. All the mosaics were re¬
drawn, A female dancer was also
ThunderScanned and then
touched up in MacPaint.

She was then copied, flipped
horizontally and had a turban,
mustache and robe added (for a
very quick gender change).

The dancers' shadow's were
created in ClickArt Effects. The
shadow of the arch was done in
MacDraw. Finally the entire

the

poster was assembled and
type added in PageMaker
The Arts and Cultu re of Bali:
Both the photos and maps were
ThunderScanned, The text w r as
created in MacWrite and the tw r o
decorative borders were formed
in MacPaint. Design, layout and
the remaining borders w f ere
done using PageMaker. Inter -
face, 2086 Sir Francis Drake
Boulevard } Fairfax, CA 94930,
(415) 459-6263.

BOOKS RUNNER-UP /FORTNER ANDERSON

Schizotexte is an attractive
book of poetry that was entirely
produced on the Mac, The whole
project took about 5 months,
from the original idea to laying
out the pages. All of the interest¬
ing visual effects are intentional.
It cost about a thousand dollars
Canadian or $650 118. The print
run was 400 copies, and it was
distributed in Canada, the Unit¬
ed States and Europe. Dromos
Editions, 4083 Clark, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada H2WIXI, (514)
843-3873,

NEWSLETTERS RUNNER-UP /CARLA BOND COUTTS

The Peddler's Village News is
a quarterly newsletter produced
entirely using PageMaker No
other programs are used. The
company admits there were
some problems as they have only
a single 512K Mac and a single
128K Mac. Still, the project was
very cost effective, and 15,000
copies in two colors are pro¬
duced four times a year. CM
Associates, Doyfestovm Agricul¬
tural Works, Suite 200 , 120
South Main Street, Doylestomi,
PA 18901, (215) 348-4288 or
3774,

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ADVERTISING RUNNER-UP l ANN RUDY

This promotional booklet for
the School of Richmond Ballet
was produced using Word, a
Thunder Scan, MacPaint and Pa¬
geMaker. All text and type for¬
matting was done in Word, Then
actual brush strokes were Thun¬

derScanned and distorted in
MacPaint to fit the design. All
layout and final type formatting
w r as done in PageMaker. Para¬
gon Design, 7 East Franklin
Street, Carriage House , Rich
mond, VA 23219, (804) 782-0880.

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Ii 1 Case'
of Emergency

Big Mac attack. Real big,

Tp\ obert Smith (his real
L/ name) is a rationalist,
JL\He designs rational
tools and systems for surviving
a nuclear attack.

Throw away your notions
of crazy geeks armed to the
teeth in desert outposts. Our
winner has thought this thing

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out. Hds even written a book
on the subject: ' ; How to Sur¬
vive a Nuclear Disaster. 71

Gimme Shelter,

Mr. Smith opposes using the
big one as much as the next
sane human being But, he
dares to think the unthinkable:
that your chances for survival
are better if you have a very
well equipped shelter from the
storm. So he developed the
concept of group-owned CAY-
ASA’s, or ^Come-As-You-Are
Survival Areas. 77 Hell buy the
land, pre-dig emergency shel¬
ters, purchase tools ana sup¬
plies. publish a newsletter, get
an 800 number, and give train¬
ing sessions to members, all for
a rather low monthly fee.

Where has all the software
gone?

The Mac is a real lifesaver
when it comes to setting up
this operation. Smith is using
MacProject for strategic plan¬
ning and Microsoft Word,

Mac Write, and Maclightning
for his extensive word process¬
ing. MacPaint, MacDraw, and
FullPaint help with the design
and layout of fallout shelters
and tools. And Over Vue and
Helix help him create killer
databases of the numerous
military facilities that comprise
our nuclear infrastructure (Le.
not good locations for
CAYASAs),

To tell you the truth we're
a little overwhelmed at now
many Mac programs Mr, Smith
uses. But, after all, there may
not be much time.

There is, however, we
hope, enough time for you to
enter our contest. Are you
doing something fascinating
with your Mac? Let us know.

Contest Winner *2 =

DRUM WITH
POWER HEAD

EXPEDIENT VACUUM
CLEANER FOR MASS
REMOVAL OF FALLOUT

Name: Robert C. Smith, C.E.Q.

Arm ini us Publications &
Productions, Merchants He, NJ
System: Mac Plus, Mac 128, and
unenhanced Mac 512.
Application: Develops strategies
for surviving nuclear war.

PERFORATED

BAFFLE

SOLID

COARSE

MESH

BAFFLE

SCREEN

Mr. Smith's innocent look¬
ing vacuum could be a real
lifesaver when the long
hard rain starts to fall.

14 MILL STREET, MARLOW, NH 03456 1 -SOQ/Mac&Lisa or 603/446-7711

©Copyng^t 1986 iVUao Connection., Inc, MaeConncmon is a division of Micro Connection, Inc. MacGonncction is a trademark, and Miao Connection is a registered trademark of Mioo Connection, Inc.

Explosive savings!

SOFTWARE

Affinity Microsystems

Tempo (power user 's macro utility). , . $69.

Altsys

Fontashc (create your own fonts) 27

Ann Arbor

FullFaint (open four documents at once) . , 55

Arrays

Home Accountant (req. external drive) ... 52

ATI

Teach Yourself Multiplan.39.

Jazz or Excel Training 39

Batteries Included

The Mac BatteryPak (9 desk accessories) 27

Home Pak (telecommunications, filer) 29

Time Link (time management system) .... 29.

Borland International

Sidekick w/Phonelink. 59,

Reflex (information management analysis). 59.

BP1 Systems

General Accounting (full- tea tured) .229

Brainpower

Think Fast (improves recall) .23.

StatView (statistics package) .59.

Designscope (electronic circuit design) , 129.

Slat V iew 512 + (req external drive, 512k ). . 179.

Broderbund

Print Shop (create cards and memos), 49.
Geometry (over 350 problems!) 69

CAMDE

N u t ri c a I c (diet & no trition ana lysis) .49.

Casady Company

Fluent Fonts (two-disk set) 29

Fluent Laser Fonts (Bodoni, Calligraphy,
Monterrey Prelude, Ritz , & Sans Serif) , each 49.

Central Point Software

Copy I I Mac (includes MacTools) . 20,

Challenger Software

Mac3D (3D graphics, GAD features) 129

Chang Labs

Rags to Riches Ledger. 125.

Rags to Riches Receivables (req, 512k). 125.

Rags to Riches Payables (req 512k) 125,

Rags to Riches Three Pak., , . , 299.

Inventory Control. 245.

Professional Billing .. 245.

Cortland

Top Desk (7 new desk accessories) 39

Creighton Development

MacSpeiU (spell checker, req. 512k) .55.

Cricket Software

Slaiworks (statistical package), . 79.

Cricket Graph (multiple windows) . 129.

DataViz

Mao Link (transfer Mac/IBM data) .89.

Desktop Graphics

Draw Art (MacDraw artwork , req, 512k) .... 29.
Draw Forms (requires MacDraw) .30.

Digital, etc.

Maccountant (integrated accounting) 99.

Turbo Maccountant (w/video tape) . 299.

Includes GL, AR, AP r Payroll, & invoicing

Dow Jones

Straight Talk (access News/Retrieval )...... 62,

Spreadsheet Link- , >. . ..65.

Market Manager PLUS, . 129.

Dreams of the Phoenix

Day Keeper Calendar. 27,

Phoenix 3D (3D graphics) .27

Quick & Dirty Utilities Vol. 1 or Vol. 2, .... . $27.
Twelve C Fi nan cial Desk Accesso ry.27.

Dubl-Click Software

World-Class Fonts! Vol. One or Vol. Two .... 29.
Calculator Construction Sei.39.

EDO Communications

Laserworks (requires 512k , LaserWriter). 229

Electronic Arts

Financial Cookbook (financial formulas )., ,, 32.
Deluxe Music Construction Sei..32.

Enabling Technologies

Easy3D (create solid 3D objects) .79.

En terse!

Gutckpaint (find Paint files fast) , ,.27.

Quickset (icon-driven desk accessories) . .27.

Guickword (word processing tool) .32,

MacGAS (spelt checker 512k ext drive) ... 55,

t st Byte

First Shapes (preschool (earning tool) .32.

Speller Bee, KidTalk, or Mathtalk. 42.

Smooth talker (speech synthesis) . 52,

Forethought

Factfinder (free form info organizer) .. . 79.

FileMaker (custom forms & reports). ...... 99

FileMa ker Pi us (feature-packed database ). 159,

Fortnu m/Southern

Maclnooga Choo Choc (train set, 512k). . ., 21
MacChemistry .... 89

FWB Software

Hard Disk Backup (protect hard disk info) , . 39,
Hard Disk Partition (speeds up hard disk) . 39,

Hard Disk Util (program backup)_ .... 59,

Great Wave Software

Christmas Favorites ...... . ,...12.

Instrumental Favorites,.. 12,

The Art of Fugue (Bach) .. 12.

KidsTime (education#, ages 3-8) .. .29,

LOG (strategy game) ,, , .. 29.

ConcertWare+ (music composition) .. 29.

ConcertWare+ MIDI.75,

Greene, Johnson

Spell swell (50,000 word dictionary) .45.

Hayden Software

I Know lt r s Here Somewhere (filer) .20,

Hayden:Speller (for Word & MacWrite ).... 27,

Mu sic Works (songs for your Mac) .32.

DaVinci Building Blocks (req. Paint program) 46.

H ome Desi g n (home planning toot) .49

Score Improvement System for the SAT.... 59.

VI dec Wo rks & M usioWor ks Bu nd I e.59.

DaVinci C om m e rcral t nterio rs.114.

Ideaform

MacLabeler (print disk labels) .29.

Imagine

Smart Alarms (DA reminder system).39.

Industrial Computations

Powermath (equation solving tool) .52.

Infosphere

LaserServe (network software) . ,.125.

MacServe (network software) . 250.

Innovative Data Design

Paste-Ease (requires Pa inf program).35,

MacDraft (new updated version, 512k ). ... 179,
Kensington

Graphic Accents (req. Paint program) . 29

Type Fonts for Text (76 new fonts) . 29

Type Fonts for Headlines (req. 512k) . 42

Layered

Notes...For Excel or Jazz. 42.

Front Desk. 75,

Legisoft/Molo Press

Wi 11 Write r 2 0 (prepare your own wifi) .$32.

Linguist’s Software

Tech (1000 different symbol)..59,

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FONTS

MacCyrillrc. 39.

SuperFrench/German/Spanish.. ., 39.

MacHreroglyphics, MacKan a/Basic Kanji,
MacSemitic/Goptic/Devanagari, MacKorean,
MacArabic, MacGreek, MacHebrew each 59.

SuperGreek New Testament . .. , ,. 79.

Laser French/Greek/German/Spanish ... 79.

MacGreek/HebrewfPhonetics. . 89.

Living Videotex!

ThinkTank 512 k (outline processor) .99.

More (outlines, windows , & tree charts) . , 159.

MacMemory

MaxRam & MaxFrint.39,

MacroMind

M. U. D. (A rt Gra bber +, CheapPa int) .32,

Magnum

Natural Sound Effects. 27

Natural Sound Cable & Editor Disk .89.

McPic- Volume 1 or Volume 2 ... 29,

The Slide Show Magician 1.3.. . ,35

Manhattan Graphics

Desk Design (2 volume set) .37,

Ready.Set.Gol3. 175

Microsoft

Flight Simulator (the Mac takes flight) .33-

Learning Multiplan and Chart (2 disks ),, . . 39,
Chart 1.0 (42 chart styles) 72,

Basic 2.1 (Gasjc language interpreter) . . . 89
Multiplan 1.1 (63 columns by 255 rows). . 105.

File 1 04 (flexible data manager) . 111.

Word 105 (word processor mail merge ).. ill.

Fortran 2,2 (compiler) . 169

Works 1,0 (integrated productivity tool) , . 189,

Excel!.0(power spreadsheet) . .. 225,

Miles Computing

Mac the Ripper (req. Paint program) .27.

Mindscape

The Luscher Profile (personality profile )... 24,

The Perfect Score: SAT.47.

C om ic Wo rks (crea te your own com/cs) 49.

GraphrcWorks (newsletters, ads, posters) , 49.

Monogram

Forecast (fax planning) . .41,

Dollars & Sense (home, smalt business ), , 81.

Nevins Microsystems

Turbocharger (disk cache, req 512k) .39.

New Canaan Microcode

M DCFinder (requires 512k) . ... 20,

Mac Disk Catalog II (requires 512k) ...... 32

Ocfesta

Helix (req. 512k, externa) drive) . 105,

Double Helix (relational, custom menus) 289.

Patantir

MacType, Math FI ash or Wordplay. 26.

Inventory Control, GL, or AR . each 69

in Talk (communication to emulation) . , . 79,

PBI Software

Icon Switcher (customized icons) . , 14.

Icon Fun & Games or Business Libraries . . 14.

HFS Locater (DA organizer for NFS).. . 27.

Hard Disk Backup (supports MFS, HFS) . 29.

Peachtree

Back to Basics GL, AR or AR ..... each 39

Potarware

Graphics Magician (animation) .. , . 39,

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

DIRECT

[CONTACT

There’s nothing cryptic

about the information

from this Delphic

oracle.

ANCIENT GREEKS KNEW WHERE
to go for die answers to their diffi¬
cult problems. They went to the
Oracle of Apollo at Delphi for help*
The Oracle, believed to be possessed
by the gods, would ramble while an
organization of priests translated her
words into verse prophecy. !n its
time, the Oracular priesthood ac¬
quired a great deal of practical wis¬
dom and gained the respect of many
of the people who sought its advice.

Modern Mac users also have ac¬
cess to a wealth of information,
advice and useful tools, and it isn't
necessary to deal with Pvthia and the
rest of the Apollonian hierarchy—-
simply use your modem to connect
with the ICQNtact Macintosh Us¬
ers' Group of modern-day Delphi,
an international network for com¬
puter users.

WELCOME TO ICQNTACT

While on your way through
ICONtact, you might see a few
“What’s New" announcement mes-

BY PETER OLSON

sages. These let you know about
tilings of unusual interest or impor¬
tance* And they don't keep reappear¬
ing to waste your time. You’ll only
see an announcement the first time
you visit an area after it's been post¬
ed, but the menu contains a record if
you need to review. Most announce¬
ments are fairly short, and often refer
you to longer messages in a particu¬
lar Forum for more detailed com¬
ment. There arc other kinds of an¬
nouncements. For instance, in the
Database area you’ll be told about
any new items in the data base* If
telecommunication terms like Menu
or Delphi terms like Forum are unfa¬
miliar to you, check the accompany¬
ing sidebar for “Tips for On-Line
Navigation. 15

The MAC menu has a whole list
of diings to do, but the most impor¬
tant ones are the major areas of
ICON tact: Forum, where messages
are posted by ICON tact members;
Database, where the archive of pro¬
grams and files is kept; Conference,
where you can have a real-time con¬
versation with other people in
ICON tact ail over the world and
“talk 15 with special guests; and
MAIL, which is used for electronic
letters and sending Macintosh files
from one Delphi member to anoth¬
er. Let's examine each of these in
turn.

WHICH WAY TO THE FORUM?

Forum is Delphi's name for the
public “bulletin board," where you
can ask questions, get help, help a
fellow ICON tact member, complain

about copy-protected software, or
even speculate about the Big Screen
Flat Mac. Forum automatically
keeps track of the last message you
have read, so it’s easy to read the
new messages. It also keeps track of
which messages are replies to other
messages, so that you can start with
a message that interests you and
progress through all replies.

Forum messages are grouped into
Topics. There are 14 topics in
ICQNtact. Topics let you select only
those messages that interest you in
the Forum. For instance, if you
aren't interested in programming,
just type clear prog to stop seeing
messages in the Programming topic.
Of course, you can choose to view
that topic at a later date.

Messages in Forum are numbered
in the order in which they were
posted. When you read a message,
you'll see the number, the date and
time it was posted, its topic, a sub¬
ject line, and the Delphi names of
the sender and addressee. You'll
soon recognize people by their Del¬
phi names, which sometimes are like
their real names (LOFTUS-
BECKER, well-known Hartford law
professor and author of Macintosh
software who believes everyone
should pay for shareware) and which
are sometimes more fanciful (PIZ-
ZAMAN, a Macintosh enthusiast
and surgeon who is a fan of Hill
Street Blues ),

The first time you enter Forum
after joining ICONtact, your high
message number is zero* Since there
are many messages here, it’s a good
idea to set your high message num¬
ber to something close to the end of
the message base, like this:

MAC>What do you want to do?
Jorum

Welcome to Macintosh ICONtact
Forum.

Forum contains messages 16
through 16491*

Highest message you’ve read is 0,

FGRUM>Read, Reply, Menu,
Exit> high

High Message on Entry: 0

Current High Message : 0

New Value {or RETURN):
16441

FORUM>Read, Reply, Menu,
Exit> read new

68 M ACU 5 Eft JANUARY 1987

Dynamite service!

ProVUE Development

OverVUE 2 0 (power-packed database) Si 49

Mai! Manager Template..29.

Personal Finance Template.29

QEO Information Sciences

Typing Made Easy (instruction) . 35

Rubicon Publishing

Silver Palate Collection (NTs finest!) . 29

Dinner At Eight (recipes to wines) ....... 35

D i n ner At E i g ht-S i Ive r Palate B u ndle . 59.

Satori

BulkMailer (mailing lists) .75,

Sierra On-Line

MacOneWrite CD, AR. or GL. each 79

Silicon Beach Software

Accessory Pak 1 (useful utilities ), ........ 21,

Silicon Press (printer utility, 512k) .42

Simon & Schuster

M ac Art Depart ment (req. Paint program) 2 4

Paper Airplane Construction Kit. .24

Typing Tutor III (learn to type!), , , 35.

SoftStyle

Col or mate Art (Cotormate images) .29

Color mate (cofor printing utility) .49.

Bluestant'/BMpr/nferdr/Verj.29.

Epstart (Epson printer driver) .29.

Laserstart (Hewlett Packard Laserjet) .59

Decision Map (make better decisionsI) . . . 85.
Software Discoveries

Record Holder (data manager) ..... special

Software Ventures

Microphone (communications) . s ..65.

Solutions, Inc.

Glue (creates ‘ print to disk ' capability) . 35,

Springboard

Art a la Mac Vol. 1-People and Places . 23

Art a la Mac Vol. 2*Variety Pack.23,

Easy as ABC (ages 3-6 1 letters) .29.

Early Games (ages 2-6. shapes, counting) 29

State of the Art

Electric Check boo k (print checks) ., ., 29

Survivor Software

MacMoney (financial planner) ....... _49,

Symmetry

Acta (outline/writing desk accessory) .39.

Pictu re Base (cAp art manager 512k) . ... . 45.

T/Maker

ClickArt Personal Graphics. Effects . each 29,

ClickArt Letters. Publications.each 29

ClickArt Holidays 29.

Write Now (new word processor) ........ 119,

Target Software

Merriam Webster's Thesaurus. . 29.

MacLightning (in ter a ctive spell checker) . . 53

Medical Dictionary..53

Legal Dictionary.53.

MacConnection
Special of the Month

through January 31, 1987

SOFTWARE DISCOVERIES
Record Holder

Flexible and easy-to-use data manager
Great for mailing lists and labels, expense
accounts and personnel records. Non
copy'protected.

* Strong search capabilities

* P rev i ew repo ris before pri nt i ng

* Clear, concise manual & help-screens

* Automatic Save feature

For your Mac or Mac Plus $42

Tetos Software

Business Filevision (512k, external drive) 199

Think Educational

MacEdge II (math & reading) .28

Mind Over Mac (5 challenging games) ... 28

Think Technologies

Lightspeed Pascal, ,. ..89

Lightspeed C (C Compiler) .. 129

TML Systems

TML Source Code Library , ,. ,,.. . 59

TML Pascal (compiler req. 512k), 69

TrueBasic

True BASIC (fast, flexible & portable) .89

Algebra, Pre-calculus, Calculus. Statistics,
Trigonometry 3D Graphics, Discrete Math,
Probability & Chippendale utilities each 36.
Runtime (create stand alone applications) 59

Unicorn

Animal Kingdom (ages 6-12J. 29

Decimal Dungeon (math, ages 9 and up) 29.
Fraction Action (arcade style math game) , 29
Mac Robots (pre-schoolprogram)....... 29.

Math Wizard (math games, ages 5-10). . ., 29.
Read-A-Rama (reading, ages 5-8 )... .35,

William & Macias

myDiskLabeler (design & print labels) 25,

myDiskLa beler w/color (req. Imagewriter II) 34

GAMES

Activision

Hacker (you Ve on your ownf) .27,

Hacker II (breach Russian computer )... 30.

Mind Shadow (Who ami?) . 27.

Borrowed Time (murder mystery) . 27

Shanghai (Mah Jongg strategy),........ 27.

Alter Ego (male or female version) .36,

Ann Arbor Softworks

Grid Wars (3D graphic arcade) .$22,

Artworx

Brrdge 4,0 (sharpen your skills) .21.

Avalon Hill

MacPro Football (req. 512k). .32.

Blue Chip

Millionaire (stock market ).. . . .. 35.

Tycoon (commoof/f/es).35.

Baron (real estate ).... 35,

Sq u i re (personal finance, req. 512k) .35.

Broderbund Software

Lode Runner (over 150 levels) _24.

A ncie nt A rt of Wa r (military strategy) .27,

Toy Shop (creafe working models) .39.

Bullseye

Ferrari Grand Prix.35,

Fokker TriPlane Flight Simulator. ,.35

Electronic Arts

Arch on (arcade strategy, req , 512k) .27,

Sky fox (3D graphics) .27.

One on One/Dr J vs Larry Bird (req. 512k) 27

Patton-vs-Rom met (req. 512 k) ..27

Pinball Construction Set.27,

Epy*

Rogue (strategy dungeon dassicf) .24.

Temple of Apshai (4 levels) ..24.

Winter Games (Olympic events) . 24

Hayden Software

Perplexx (scrabble-lype game) ...... .24.

Sarq on 111 (9 levels of chess) .29

Infinity Software

Grand Slam (tennis, req. 512k) .28,

infoeom

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Moonmist,
Ballyhoo, Cutthroat, Hitchhiker's Guide,
Planetfalf, Wishbringer. Enchanter, Trinity

Zork 1, The Witness (standard) .each 24.

Zork II, Zork III, Sorcerer, Suspect,

Mind Foreve r Voyagi n g (a dva need) each 26.

Spel l b reake r (expert) .29.

Invisiclues (hint booklets) . each 6.

MacroMind

Maze Wars+ (play via modem or network) 32.

Miles Computing

Fusillade (arcade maze) ..21.

M acAttac k (3D fa nk simulation) . 27.

Harri er St ri ke M issi o n (3D fligh t sim ula tion) 2 7.
MacWars (3D space simulation) . . . 27.

Mindscape

Rambo; First Blood Part II.. 24,

James Bond 007: h 'A View to a Kill 1 '. 24.

James Bond 007: 'Goldfinger".24,

Stephen King's The Mist M .. ,, 24,

Racter (converse with your Mad) .27,

Balance of Power (world politics) .30.

l-800/Mac & Lisa 660U

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All items subject to availability. Prices subject to change without notice.

■ Defective software replaced immediately. Defective hardware replaced or repaired at our discretion. -Some items have warranties up to five years.

Please circle 82 on reader service card.

Ultimate support.

Brataccus (great graphics, req. 512k) . $30.

Uninvited (mystery adventure ). . , . . .... 30,
DejaVu (murder mystery ). . 33

Origin Systems

Exodus; Ultima 111 (fantasy adventure) .,,. 38.

PBt Software

Strategic Conquest (multi-user) . 35

Polarware

Transylvania, Sword of Kadash. Xyphus.
Crimson Crown... each 15.

Psion

Psion Chess (30 and multi-lingual). ...... 31

QWare

Orb Quest (graphtc fantasy adventure) 29,

Scarborough

Make Millions (business simulation) .29.

Sierra On-Line

Championship Boxing (knock 'em out !), . , 25.

Ultima II (role playing adventure) .25.

Silicon Beach Software
Airborne! (digitized-sound war game) .... 20
Enchanted Scepters (sound & graphics) .21
Dark Castle (digitized arcade game) , . 28.

World Builder (create adventure games) .. 42,
Simon & Schuster

Star Trek—The Ko bayash i Adventure. . , 24.

Sir-Tech

Mac Wizardry (high-rated adventure ), . 36.

Spectrum Holobyte

GATO (submarine simulation) . 26.

Orb iter (requires 512k ),. 27.

Tel I star II (No, & So hemispheres, req , 512k) 45.

Vide*

MacGammon/Cribbage.28.

Mac Vegas (7 casino games).34.

HARDWARE

Apricorn

ApnCord Mac (Mac Plus parallel interface) 75.

AST Research

AST 2000 (20 MB, 20 MB tape) .1995.

AST 4000 (74 MB, 60 MB tape) ...... 4895.

Cambridge Automation

MIDI Conductor.69.

Curtis Manufacturing

Diamond (6 outlets) ...29

Emerald (6 outlets; 6 ft cord) ..36.

Sapphire (3 outlets; EMI/RFI filtered) .47.

Ru by (6 outle ts; EMt/RFI filtered; 6 ft cord) 55..

Dove Computer

Memory Expansion Units

Mac Snap 524 (572k to 1 Meg).. 159,

Mac Snap Plus 2 (Mac Plus to 2 Meg) . . . 309.

Mac Snap 548 (512k to 2 Meg) . 469.

Ergotron

M acT i ft (inclu des ex ternaI drive bra cket )... 75.

MacBuffer 512k, .. 369.

Mac Buffer 1 Megabyte 569.

Hayes

Smartcom II (communications software) . 89.
Smarfmodem 300.1200 or 2400.call

IOMEGA

Bernoulli Box (dual 10-MB w/SCSI )., . . . 1869
Bernoulli Box (dual 20-MB w/SCSI) . , . . 2369,

Kensington

Mouseway (mouse tracking pad) .8,

Mouse Pocket (for your idle mouse) .8

M ac (PI u s), H D h Syste m Saver Cove r each 9.
Imagewriter (II) Dust Cover . 9

AppleTalk Clips .... 11.

Mouse Cleaning Kil w/Mouse Pocket. , .17.

Di sk Case (h olds 36 Ma c disks) .$19

Disk Drive Cleaning Kit.. . 20,

Tilt/Swivel.. 22,

Copy Stand. 24.

Polarizing Filter.34.

Surge Suppressor. 35.

A B Box (specify Mac or Mac Plus) . 65

Control Center.65.

System Saver Mac (complete with fan ),, .65.
Koala Technologies

KAT Graphics Tablet.. .. 139

Mac Vision (digitizer) .. , . 175,

Kraft

Qu ickSlick (Mac joystick) . 42.

Mirror Technofogies

FastPort ( M SCS/' f for your 5 f 2k Mac) 139.

MagNet 20x (w/MacServe) . 899.

Magnum 20 Tape Backup.. 929.

MagNet 30x (w/MacServe) . 995

MagNet 4QI40(40MB 1 40MB tape ), ... 2559,
Personal Computer Peripherals
MacBottom Hard Disk 2OM0 (SCS/J .... 879.
PK1

McD 800k External Drive..199.

Summagraphics

M acla blet 6" x 9 ,r fsfy/us driven ). .265

MacTablet 12* X12 11 (sketching )....... 369.

Systems Control

M acG a r d (surge protection) .55.

Thunderware

Thunderscan (high-resolution digitizer) .. 175.
Mac Plus Power Accessory. 29.

Western Automation

DASCH RAMdisk 1000k. 349

DASCH RAMdisk 2000k. 399

DISKS

Single-sided Diskettes

BASF 3 V?' r Disks (box of 5), .9.

Sony 314" Disks (box of 10) . 17

Verbatim 3Y2 J ' Disks (box of 10) .. . . 17.

MAXELL 3 W* Disks, (boxpm) ,; .. . 17.

Fuji 3Vs" Disks (box . 17.

3M 3V2* Disks ... .19.

,} M ,Y| 1 j‘ ' i , |

Double sided Diskettes

BASF 3V2' r Disks'(box, . 14.

Sony 3Vs"Double-^>ded Disks 1 (hD)26.
Verbatim 3V2" Double-sided Disks (10).. 26.

MAXELL3Vs" Double-sided Disks(IO), . . 26.

Fuji 3V 2 " Double-sided Disks (10) .26.

3M 3V2* Double-sided Disks (10) .27,

INFORMATION SERVICES

CompuServe

Compose r ve I nf o rm atio n Service.27

Dow Jones

Dow Jones News/Retrieval Membership Kit 24.
Source Telecomputing

The Source (subscription & manual) .30.

ACCESSORIES

Automation Facilities

Ftoppiclene Drive Care Krt.15

Floppiclene Refill. 10

MacPak Complete Care System .29

Clean Image Ribbon Co.

Clean Image Ribbon Kit...12.

Computer Coverup

External Disk Drive Cover . ..$4.

imagewriter (II) Cover.8,

Mac (Plus) & Keyboard ft wo covers )... . 10.

Diversions

Underware Ribbon (iron-on black transfer) .9

Multi-color Transfer Ribbon ,. ..19.

Co I or Pac k (includes Colorpens) . 19,

Environmental Software Company
'MACATTIRE (Rip-stop nylon covers)

Exte r n a I D rive Cove r (400k or 800k) .7.

imagewriter (II) Cover. 11

W i d e 1 m age writer Co ve r. 13

Mac (Plus) & Keyboard Cover. ,..15.

LaserWriter Cover.17,

Mac (Plus) & HD20 & Keyboard Cover.... 18,
I/O Design

Imageware II (Imagewnter II carry case )... 59.
Macinware Plus (Mac Pius carry case )... 69.

Innovative Concepts

Flip & File Micro (holds 25 disks) . 9.

Flip & File (holds 40 disks) .18.

Innovative Technologies

The Pocket Pak (holds 6 disks) . 9

The Ease! (holds 20 disks ). .... , . 12.

The Disk Directory (holds 32 disks) . 18

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Now you can read messages
16441 through 16491 as if they had
accumulated since your last visit.
Enter read new at the Forum
prompt, and press the Return key at
the end of each message to see the
next one.

When you post a message in Fo¬
rum, you may use the reply command
or the add command. Using reply
attaches the message to the one you
just read. In this way each reply to a
message is collected into the
"thread” of related messages. If your
message is about a different subject,
use the add command to begin a new
thread. You can tell when you are
reading a message that is part of a
thread because it will say at the
bottom “Enter FOLLOW for relat¬
ed Message (s)T

Here's an example of using the
add command to begin a new
thread:

FORUM>Read, Reply, Menu,
Exit> add

To: mouseketeer

Subj: Jim's PageMaker Ripper

Topic? MUGS

Please enter your message below.
CTRL/Z when Complete.

A If, is Jim going to talk about bis
program for extracting text out of
PageMaker documents at the next
MUGS Online meeting?

peter

Message 16231 Stored.

FORUM> Read, Reply, Menu,
Exit>

The A Z indicates end of message
and is typed by holding down the
Command key white pressing Z.
Some terminal programs use the
Option key, or Shift plus Command
tor this purpose. If you can’t seem to
get the "Z to work, type/mf instead.

The subject line of a message
should be descriptive because it will
be carried on all messages that are
replies and because you can search
for threads based on what appears in
the subject line. When you are add¬
ing a message addressed to nobody
in particular, address it to ALL.

Using reply is similar to using add
except Siat you need not specify the
subject or topic. Also, the reply will
be addressed to the person whose
message you arc replying to unless

you type in someone clse’s name.

Let's say you post a message and
then come back the next day. If
someone has replied (which is very
likely) you will be greeted with "You
have new Forum message(s)” as you
enter ICONtact. When you go to
Forum, you'll again be told that you
have messages waiting along with
advice to “Press RETURN to
READ WATTING messages.” Press¬
ing return gives you only messages
addressed to you. If you want to
read other new messages too, you
type read new instead.

If you want a quick look at mes¬
sages waiting for you or new mes¬
sages posted since you last stopped
in, the directory command is handy.
Type dir new or dir waiting to see a
list by message number, sender, ad¬
dressee, topic and subject. The dir
command also can be used to search
for specific messages. For example

dir from jeffs 12000:12100
lists all messages sent from JEFFS in
die range 12000 to 12100, while the
more complex command:

dir from jeffs to mouseketeer
12000:12100 subj “disk test
lists all messages sent from JEFFS to
MOUSEKETEER in the range
12000 to 12100 and containing the
phrase “disk test” in the subject line.

Another handy tip for quick access
to ICONtact is to record the data
you arc receiving from Delphi on
your disk and use the command read
new nonstop to gather all messages.
Then fog off Delphi and take your
time reading messages without pay¬
ing connect charges. When you find
messages you want to reply to, log in
again to send your replies. You can
specify a message number in the
reply command to attach your reply
to a specific message without having
to reread it.

In addition to messages posted
directly by ICONtact members, wc
maintain an active two-way link with
Usenet and ARPAner INFO-MAC,
the worldwide noncommercial net¬
works. Messages from these net¬
works and replies are posted in a
special topic called “Network Di-

JANUARY 1987 MACUSER69

DIRECT ICONTACT

gcsts.” These messages and excerpts
from odier topics of ICONtact Eo-
rum are edited into digests, quite
condensed from the original traffic
but nevertheless a tremendous
source of information,

PROGRAMS BY WIRE

The Database area of ICONtact
contains a large compendium of pro¬
grams and other files pertaining to
the Macintosh, Although we don't
have every Macintosh program you
might find on local bulletin boards,
we keep up to date with what people
around the world are doing with
noncommercial software and user-
supported software. Wc have pro¬
grams uploaded by some of the most
talented Macintosh programmers
around, and we have permission
from many authors who are not yet
ICONtact members to put their
works in our data base. The ICON-
taet (Database) is managed by Jeff
Shulman (Delphi name JEFFS),
who is assistant manager of ICON¬
tact.

ICONtact is also an licensed elec¬
tronic distributor of programs and
files from Apple. System and Finder
updates are posted in the w Business”
topic of the Database, and the Soft¬
ware Supplement files appear in die
ICONtact Developers' Group (you
get there by typing dev at the MAC
menu; it’s a separate group in its
own right). We also have a special
section in the Database for commer¬
cial software chat we make available
by arrangement with publishers.
You can purchase this software on¬
line by downloading it and Delphi
automatically bills you a surcharge to
cover the cost of the software.

You arrive in die Database area by
using the command database. You'll
see any Database announcements
posted since you last visited the data
base. Then you are asked which
topic you want to access. The same
topics are used in both the Database
and the Forum areas of ICONtact,

Once you have picked a topic,
there are four commands you will
use most frequently. The directmy
command displays a list of file
groups in the topic, newest groups
first, including date of posting, type
of files contained in the group, and

This MacPaint logo ol the
ICONtact group is
available ter
downloading from the
Database,

the Delphi name of the person who
submitted the files. The read com¬
mand is used to obtain a more
detailed description of a group and
also gives you access to the list of
files in the group so you can down¬
load them. If you don’t say which
group you want to read, the read
command begins with the newest
group in the topic. The third com¬
mand is search T which you use to find
files that match keywords you speci¬
fy. Finally, the set command allows
you to switch to a different topic
without leaving the Database area.
Here’s an example of using the read
command:

D BASES :Use> (Dir, Read, Set,
Exit) read diskinfo

Name: DISKINFO 1,43

Type: PROGRAM

Date: 7-JUL-1986 21:23 by
DDUNHAM

[ Updated 7-JUL-1986 05:58 by
DDUNHAM to version 1.43. Re¬
ports free memory more realistically,
and is smaller.

Doc file is unchanged. |

Diskinfo(tm) (the rest of the
description appears here) Written by
David Dunham.

Keywords: DESK, DISK INFO,
SEARCH, FILES

Contents:

1 DISKINFO 1.43 (Size: 15232)

2 DISKINFO DOC (Size:
23040)

ACTION (Next, Down, Xm,
List) xm I

Type three consecutive <Control-
C>’s to abort.

OK, receive f (15232 bytes =119
xmodem blocks, non-text)

At the ACTION prompt you can
download a file using the xmodem
command, as shown in the illustra¬
tion, or die hermit command. If the

file contains only text, you can list it.
You select the file you want from a
numbered list by using the number
in the command, but once you have
started downloading files using (say)
xmodem y the Database software auto¬
matically uses the same protocol for
the next file in the group if you
simply hit the return key after each
download is complete. Using XMO¬
DEM and Kermit protocols prevents
errors in file transfer, so you should
use one of those in preference to the
list command. If your terminal pro¬
gram allows both XMODEM and
Kermit transfers, experiment to see
which you prefer to use.

When you arc finished with the
files in a group, the next command
will read the description of the next
group in the topic, so you can easily
continue downloading files. If you
want to skip around, exit from the
ACTION prompt and enter a read
command specifying another group.

If any of this seems complicated,
don't worry. You can always get help
by posting a message in Forum or by
sending electronic mail to JEFFS or
PE ABO (that’s me).

DOING YOUR PART

The data bases rely on user sub¬
missions, Here’s how you can con¬
tribute. First you use the workspace
command to enter your personal
workspace and use x upload (or ku-
pload if you use Kermit) to upload
your files to your workspace. When
you have prepared all the files in a
group this way, you use the submit
command to send them to the Data¬
base PREVIEW area along with the
description and keywords that
should he applied to the group.

File groups in PREVIEW are not
yet accessible to the public. The

70MACUSER JAN UARY 1987

system operators download them
first to make sure there was not a
problem during your upload, and we
may also contact you by electronic
MAIL if there was a problem or we
need more information about the
files. When the group is ready, they
will move it into die topic you
specified when you submitted it and
prepare an announcement to alert
people to the new group.

ICONtacfs policy is to get in
touch with the author of a program
or file whenever possible in order to
obtain permission for the file to be
in our Database, If you are the
author, then your submission of the
files is considered explicit permission
lor us to put them in the Database,
but if you arc not, we'd like you to
tell us how to get in touch with the
author. Some files contain notices
sufficient to establish permission; if
that is the case we need not check
with the author.

If you have files you think are
appropriate for the data base and
you don't want to spend the money
to upload them, you can contact the
operators about "'Free Upload +
the ICON tact bonus for uploading.
Rather than just shut off the billing
during your upload, if II be shut off
for a while longer and you can use
the extra free time for anything you
want in I CON tact. It’s our way of
expressing appreciation for your
contribution to I CON tact!

CHATTING IN REAL TIME

Delphi Conference (usually just
called CO) is where people gather to
have a conversation. A Conference
group can contain any number of
people. Each person in the group
can see what others type and make
personal comments.

There arc two kinds of conference
groups. One kind is a Moderated
Conference, in which you are expect¬
ed to listen while conference guests
speak or other people ask questions;
you bid tor your turn to ask a
question by typing a single question
mark. The other is a free-for-all
where you can talk at any time, crack
jokes, carry on conversations concur¬
rently with several other people, and
generally have a great time. Free-for-
all conferences are like Italian din¬

TIPS FOR ON-LINE NAVIGATION

If you're new to the business of modems and telecommunication programs. don T t be
alarmed by the buzzwords. What you really need to know can be spelled out pretty
simply, and very soon it will all seem old hat. First, you need a modem and a terminal
program. Although you have to buy a modem somewhere, and your dealer has
commercial terminal programs to sell you, it's a good idea to try out one of the many
noncommercial terminal programs that are available on disk from Macintosh user
groups.

Once you have a terminal program, there are a few details you need to get right.
First, make sure the speed you set in the terminal program matches the speed your
modem is capable of (300,1200, or 2400 baud). Usually you'll want to use the fastest
speed available, but faster speed sometimes causes errors in the data sent back and
forth. When you're selecting a modem to use with Delphi, you should keep in mind that
Delphi charges the same rate at all three speeds (it can be as low as 10 cents per
minute).

You also need proper settings for the communication parameters. For Delphi, use 8
bits, no parity and one stop bit. Either your program will have a menu for this or it will
use these settings automatically. Also, if there is an option for sending ' linefeeds' 1 as
well as "carriage returns," turn it off; Delphi does not need the linefeeds. The
backspace key may be configurable to send backspace or delete. If you dial Delphi
directly using the Cambridge number, or if you dial through Tymnet, use delete.
Otherwise use backspace. If you follow these rules, you'll be able to get on-line
successfully and find out other tips for making your use of Delphi an enjoyable
experience.

Delphi uses menus to aid the new user but offers shortcuts for the experts. When you
first join Delphi, your "profile" is set to display full menus. (Your profile is a list of
settings that tell Delphi how you want it to behave.) If you get tired of that, type the
commands fprompt verbose and / save . This will change the menus into single-line
prompts. Whenever you’re at a single-line prompt, you can see the full menu by
entering a question mark and pressing return. If you decide you are happier with the
menus, /prompt menu and /save wilt restore them for you. Even more assistance is
available at most menus; just type help.

Getting to the ICONtaet group is easy. It is part of the Delphi Groups and Clubs, so
just type group at the MAIN menu, and type mac at the GROUPS menu. You can
abbreviate this as gr mac for short. If you find you always want to go to ICONtaet as
soon as you log in, you can make gr mac be your default menu by following the
instructions in the ICONtaet Help section.

Once in ICONtaet, the various things you do are all accessed by typing words on the
MAC menu. If you turn off your menus, you'll quickly come to think of these as
convenient commands. You'll find that many commands can be abbreviated to one or
two of their initial letters, making their use very simple. For instance, the forum
command is f and the (database) command is da.

ners, except that von don't have to
consider yourself outgoing to get
into the spirit of things. After all,
who can tell that you're really a mild-
mannered, serious person when you
have just brought the house down
with an excruciating pun?

To move to the Conference area,
type conf at the MAC prompt. This
will put you at the CONFERENCE
menu, where you type /who to get a
listing of groups and people talking,
or type/join 3 to join group 3 {for
example}* Once in a group, what
vou type is sent to all other group
members as soon as you press the
return key* All conference com¬
mands begin with die slash character
(/) to distinguish them from me s¬

sages to the group. Using the com¬
mands, you can pick a nickname,
send a private message to someone
without interrupting what the group
is saying, join more than one group
at a time, change the name of die
group, page someone to join the
group, or accept someone else's
page,

ICONtaet has a 2-year tradition of
holding a conference at 10 PM East¬
ern Time each Sunday. It runs until
nobody feels like talking anymore*
Usually this is a free-for-all, and the
discussion is half about Mac and half
about anything you think of. Ids a
great place to trade rumors and get
advice about problems that are too
difficult to explain in a Forum ques-

JANUARY 1987 MACU5ER71

DIRECT ICONTACT

TRY IT OUT FOR YOURSELF

We don't have space in this article to get into all the other things you can do in
ICONtact or using other features of Delphi, so we 1 re making a special offer to readers of
MacUser magazine. If you haven't tried Delphi, we'll sign you up for a Delphi username
(usually $49.95) and give you a complimentary hour of evening use. ff you have a
Delphi account already but perhaps have not visited ICONtact recently, we li give you
the free hour anyway; just log in and send Delphi mail to username PEABQ saying you
want to take advantage of the MacUser magazine's special offer.

Here’s how you sign up: dial Delphi by voice at (800) 544-4005 (in Massachusetts
dial (617) 491-3393) and ask for your local network number and access procedures
(you can skip this if you know how to use Telenet or Tymnet; in that case just connect to
Delphi through the network). If Cambridge, Massachusetts is a local call for you, you
can dial the Delphi computers directly at (617) 576-0862 Once you get on with your
modem, press return until you hear a beep and get the prompt "Username: 31 ; respond
by typing J01NICONUSER. When you are prompted for an authorization code, type
MACUSER.

The rest of the procedure is a simple question and answer, which will guide you
through entering your billing information, selecting your own Delphi name, and giving
you a temporary password. You'll have to leave a phone number where you can be
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line speeds whether you use 300, 1200, or 2400 baud!

If you need a terminal program to get started on Delphi, we can supply you free of
charge with a disk containing several high-quality non-commercial terminal programs
(try them all to see which you prefer). Call Delphi and ask for the ICONtact starter kit for
MacUser readers.

tion. Sometimes there is a scheduled
Moderated conference in this time
slot; if that is the case it is an¬
nounced about a week in advance.

And then there's VCO. That’s the
original visua [/voice conferencing
program, invented by Harry Ches-
ley. Some people use this during the
Sunday meetings. If you see some
funny messages like: —I (a VCO grin)
flying hack and forth, you’ll know
what’s going on. Another innovative
program developed on Delphi is
InterMnc Bumper Ships (IBS), a
shareware game written by Jeff Shul-
man and Harry Chesley. You can
download the program from the
Database ,andi then go to CO when
other IBS players are meeting and
see who can bump the most space¬
ships without falling into the sun!

If you want to schedule a confer¬
ence of your own, put a message
about it in Forum and ask us to post
an announcement to publicize it.
There arc several groups of people in
ICONtact who meet on a semi-
regular basis. Of course, CO is not
just for scheduled events, and if you
see someone in ICONtact that you
know from talking in Forum, it’s a
good way to get better acquainted.

POSTING MAIL WITHOUT POSTAGE

Although the Forum is a good
place for exchanging messages, some
messages are not of general interest
to the public (remember, every mes¬
sage in the Forum can be read by
anyone). In that case electronic
MAIL is a better method of commu¬
nication. You can send MAIL to one
or more people; all you need to
know is their Delphi names. A mail
message is not limited in length, and
it is possible to upload a file to your
personal workspace in order to send
it through MAIL.

Many of the people in the ICON¬
tact Developers’ Group use electron¬
ic MAIL to send “beta rest” versions
of programs they are working on to
people who are willing to rrv r them
out and report bugs. It’s also a good
way to exchange articles; this article
was reviewed by people across the
country during the time it was being
written. Electronic mail is far more
effective than paper mail for coordi¬
nating any kind of creative project.

MAIL is virtually instantaneous.
You can verify this by sending
MAIL to yourself; you’ll immediate¬
ly receive the message saying you
have new MAIL. New MAIL is also
announced when you log into Del¬
phi (before you even reach ICON¬
tact), so you don’t have to worry
about checking your mail all the
time.

To get to MAIL, type mail at the
MAC menu. When you see “MAIL”,
you will once again be informed if
you have new messages, and if you
do, type read to read them. You type
send to send a message, filling it out
much as if you were posting a Fo¬
rum message. Other commands al¬
low you to forward a received mes¬
sage to someone else, delete mail you
don’t want to keep, or extract a
message to your personal workspace,
where you can download it with
XMODEM.

NOW THAT YOU KNOW YOUR WAY
AROUND

While this guide has been very
condensed, you should know all you
need to use the most important
features of ICONtact. But there’s

one other thing: the friendly folks
you’ll meet here. Even though the
ICONtact membership grows every
day, it still has a comfortable atmo¬
sphere. Maybe it’s the way people
choose dieir names, or maybe it’s the
case of use of Delphi. Maybe it’s
because the Macintosh is a grear
machine and ICONtact is full of
people who have Macs. Whatever it
is, be sure to say “hi” when you drop
in; wc promise a warm welcome!
And don’t forget that there’s more to
Delphi too. The Micro Artists Net¬
work is right next door to ICONtact
and offers everyone graphics and
computer music with an artistic (and
sometimes zany) flair. If you’re a
stuck on a game, check out Gamc-
SIG for a clue that’s just right for
getting going again. There’s a spot
for MIDI freaks, science fiction
buff’s, and probably a spot just for
your special interests. ^

PETER OLSON IS A DEVOTED MAC: PRO¬
GRAMMER, TO SUPPORT IHIS HABIT HE
WORKS AS MANAGER. OF [CONTACT. THE
MACINTOSH USERS’ GROUP OF DELPHI.
HIS DELPHI NAME IS PE ABO,

72MACUSER JANUARY 1987

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THINKING IN

LATITUDES

MapMaker can put your Mac on the map — or

maybe it’s the other way around?

ALMOST EVERY SPECIES IS IN
some way territorial, but no other
apportions space with quite the ded¬
ication of Homo Sapiens . Beyond lo¬
cal physical boundaries, we live, for
better or worse, in a world defined
by geographic, national, cultural, so¬
cial, and political distinctions. And it
has always been so. That’s why
through the ages cartographers have
always found steady employment.

These days, many traditional
boundaries have been overshadow ed
by new lines of demarcation and

maps expressing these new relation¬
ships are increasingly important to
sociologists, political analysts, and
market researchers. However, with
the MapMaker program from Select
Micro Systems and a Macintosh,
almost anyone can be a cartographer,
MapMaker makes possible the pro¬
duction of custom maps that would
have won you A’s in geography
class.

GEOGRAPHY 101

MapMaker comes on four 400 K

BY CARLOS DOMINGO MARTINEZ

floppies. Though the program uses
memory management techniques
that optimize the use of available
RAM, complicated digital maps can
ear memory voraciously. So, the pro¬
gram requires a Macintosh with at
least 512K memory, MapMaker will
run on a single drive Mac, but two-
drive operation is more efficient.
MapMaker is not copy-protected so
it may be installed on hard disks
without difficulty.

The three other disks contain
boundary and data tiles, the building
blocks from which the MapMaker
images are created.

Each boundary file contains a de¬
scription of the mathematical rela¬
tionships that define the outline of
the map. When a map is to be
produced, MapMaker uses this infor¬
mation to compose a properly sealed
image in any size.

Boundary files describing the
world by country (110 countries
divided into 10 geographical sec¬
tors), the United States by states
(the mainland 48 with Alaska and
Hawaii), individual "States by
County,’ 1 90 major metropolitan
area points for the United States,
and 169 world capital city points,
are on the three disks. MapMaker
boundaries may be employed indi¬
vidually, sub-divided, or combined.

The data files contain population
statistics and demographic informa¬
tion that may be integrated with the
map images. The data files for the
United States were derived from the
data collected with the last census.
Population figures, as estimated by
World Game Projects, Inc., are pro¬
vided for each country.

THE WORLD ON A DISK

The files included with MapMak¬
er > however, only begin to scratch
the surface. Available from Strategic
Locations Planning, Inc. (4030
Moorpark Ave. Suite 123, San Jose,
CA 95117, (408) 985-7400) arc
disks with boundary and data files
for the United States divided by Zip
Code sectional centers (the 600 loca¬
tions identified by the first three Zip
digits), by the 110 telephone area
code sections, by metropolitan statis¬
tical areas (325 non-rura! sections of

74MACUS E R J ANUARY 1987

JOOK LEUNG

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R A P H I C S

the U n ired S tares), bv areasofdot 11 i-
nant influence (the major television
markets as defined bv the Arbitron
service), by Designated Marketing
Area (the TV markets as defined by
A.C Nielsen), and the major cities
in the United States (the 500 cities
with population over 50K).

All this data is, as they say in the
toy business, sold separately. In
some cases the data associated with a
particular set of boundary flies can
be found on more than one disk,
which lets you purchase only the
disks you need. Also, five-digit Zip
Code and census tract boundaries as
well as updated census data files are
available on a custom basis in a
variety of forms. Check directly with
S.L.P. about the availability and
pricing on these disks and about
their custom MapMakcr Boundaries
and data files.

NAVIGATING THE PROGRAM

The program behaves like a well-
designed Mae program. CREATE A
MAP l ROM BOUNDARIES, the first
option on the Display menu, selects
the method the program will use to
pur together a map. You may choose
to use a single complete boundary
file, combine several complete files,
select a subset from a single file, or
select a subset from several boundary
files.

For a map of the New York Met¬
ropolitan area, relevant counties
from two “State by County 1 * bound¬
ary files (NY and NJ) need to be
combined. So for this map, the
fourth option is the choice. Clicking
OK displays a standard dialog box
from which boundary files may be
chosen. Selecting a file presents a
second dialog box w here individual
map features may be selected.

Due to the extensive duplication
of names, every county in every state
has been assigned a unique identifi¬
cation number bv the federal govern¬
ment. These are used by AlapMnkcr
to identify the individual counties,
and are the only designations avail¬
able in the Feature Selection box.
Because mv copy of MapMakar had
no reference information on county
names, I had to make maps of each
Metro Area state to discover which

numbers corresponded with the
counties I needed. However, Select
Micro Systems says that a reference
list is now being included with the
program and that an on-line refer¬
ence may be added in future ver¬
sions. In any case, producing your
own reference maps is only a minor
inconvenience.

When more than one feature from
a boundary file is to be used, as with
the eight New York and the four
New Jersey counties needed for our
map, each must be highlighted and
selected individually- If scrolling
from the top of the list each time is
too time-consuming, creating
boundary' and data disks containing
only those files you use regularly,
may provide at least a partial solu¬
tion.

When combining features from
more than one boundary' file, the
program asks you to specify the size
of the map image immediately' fol¬
lowing the selection of the first
group. Thus, hitting the DONE [nit¬
ron on the Feature Selection dialog
box after choosing the NJ counties
for our sample moves you directly to
the Page Layout screen. Here, Map-
Maker invites you to drag a rectangle
over a model page to set the desired
image size or to simply select the
FULL PAGE option. After sizing the
image, MapMakcr returns to the
boundary file Selection Box.

Since image size has already been

specified, pressing the DONE button
after completing the selection of any
subsequent map features, in our case
the NY Counties, only returns us
again to the boundary file catalog.
This is understandable, since the
program has no way of blowing
how manv different boundary' files
one might wish to access. The only
way out of this dialog box is through
the somewhat unorthodox use of the
CANCEL button. Press this and Map-
Maker executes the map.

HERE BE DRAGONS?

While in most respects the pro¬
gram performed very' well, a minor
difficulty' did surface during use. At
the outset the dialog box displaying
the boundary file catalog did not
operate correctly. When a data disk
was inserted in the external drive, its
existence was not recognized by the
program, the contents of the disk in
that drive were not displayed, and
the DRIVE button was not activated.
(This occurred consistently, though
not exclusively, with this particular
dialog box. Occasionally, the same
problem arose with other dialog
boxes.) If the disk in the internal
drive is ejected, the external drive is
read and the dialog box displays its
contents. This method, however, can
lead vou astray if you eject the data
disk and insert another before restor¬
ing the program disk to the internal
drive.

THINKING IN LATITUDES

A Mercator projection of
the world produced by
combining the ten
boundary files which
make up the "World By
Country/'These same
boundary files may be
used to focus on any area
of the world.

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Countries Of The World
POP INCREASE

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World Population Increase

Select Micro Systems are aware of
the problem, and suggested another
method. Clicking on the “Volume
Name,” above the control buttons,
causes the external drive to be recog¬
nized, For the short term, this solves
the problem. For the long term, S.
M. S. is already at work on a remedy.
By the time you read this, die issue
should be resolved. S. M. S. said that
if the problem can be rectified from
within the program, registered own¬
ers would be supplied with a modi¬
fied version as soon as it is available.

YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

MapMakcr 3 s first effort at produc¬
ing our sample map is, naturally
enough, a bit less than perfect.
Boundary files are merely the start¬
ing point.

Titles and labels can be added by
choosing the ENTER/EDIT TEXT op¬
tion and clicking on the spot where
the text is to be located. Double
clicking on the map location will
speed you into the text entry box.
Double clicking on text already dis¬
played on the map will place it in the
entry window ready for editing. The
legend may be edited by selecting
EDIT LEGEND or by double clicking
on the legend box itself. And every
surface element of a MapMakcr im¬
age, such as the legend, labels or
titles, may be moved anywhere on
the page simply by clicking and
dragging it to place.

To make the sample map more
understandable, I transferred the im¬
age to MacPaint for further enhance¬
ment. There, I emphasized the lines
depicting state and county borders,
lengthened the line between Rock¬

land and Westchester Counties and
drew lines representing the Suffolk
County shoreline of Long Island and
the opposite shore of LX Sound.

Why not just include these fea¬
tures on the original MapMakcr plot,
you might ask? Because when in¬
cluding a feature in a map, it is
plotted in its entirety. So adding
Suffolk and Fairfield Counties re¬
sults in a map with significantly
different scaling. To emphasize the
counties closer to the center of New
York City, I omitted the outlying
regions, thus altering the basis of
MapMaker's calculations. Once the
map image is determined, it is a
simple matter to add the missing
parts, for the sake of clarity.

All of which underscores the fact

that while MapMakcr cartography is
not difficult, it does entail some
planning. So don’t be surprised if
several attempts are required before
you arrive at the image you need. At
least MapMakcr renders such experi¬
mentation virtually painless.

IMAGE MIGRATIONS

Text or images can be moved in
and out of MapMakcr via the Clip¬
board, or may also be imported and
exported directly. At any step of the
map making process, SAVE MAP AS...
and SAVE MAP stores the image or
updates the disk file in MapMakers
proprietary format. I found it a good
practice to save an unenhanced map
under a file name distinct from that
of the map under construction. This
will prevent your having to com¬
pletely reconstruct a map when you
need it again, if the enhancement
process goes awry, or disaster strikes.

To use MapMakcr maps with oth¬
er programs they must be saved as
MacPaint images. When creating
MacPaint files, MapMakcr gives you
the option of storing the complete
map or simply the (bare outline)
base map.

Returning the image to MapMak¬
cr is not difficult, but it’s not
straightforward, either. Although
OPEN MACPAINT DOCUMENT in the
F i le m c n u w ill in deed i m port a Mac-

* File Edit

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Categories Display Fonts Style

Area 1 Name:

1)

2)

31

41

5)

6)
7)
G)
9]

101

Data £b 1* 1 , Category Names Uulue

1900 Population

|5 040 04.00 ]

^Person* In Household*

499274.00

f* of Household*

1779 73.00

Rue. Persons per Household

2.01

# of f amines

1303 75.00

Hoe. Persons per Family

3.31

ft nf Female*

263810.00

ft of Males

240278.00

# of White*

405560.00

ft of Blacks

0120 7.00

UK , Next

MapMaker’s data entry
screen with the
Population data for Union
County New Jersey.
Category #4 was the
basis for the data overlay
for the New York metro
map.

76 MACUSER JANUARY 1987

Paint picture* it is not automatically
transformed back into a MapMaker
image. If, for example, we returned
our enhanced sample map using this
option, the ability to import data
files for use with it would Lae cur¬
tailed.

Anv MacPaint image may indeed
be used as a base map, or individual
areas added to a map in MacPaint
may be designated as part of the base
map, but other steps are necessary
before MapMaker will recognize an
image as its own. There are two
ways to accomplish this and, in the
case of our sample map, both proce¬
dures were employed.

First, load in a MapMaker copy of
the uncnhanced map. Once this map
is on screen, select SUBSTITUTE BASE
MAP from the Display menu and
choose the MacPaint image to be
substituted. This will load the Mac¬
Paint image and designate it as the
current base map. Once this is done,
MapMaker treats the imported im¬
age as a bona fide map.

As part of its substitution process,
MapMaker creates a new “active”
legend. .If you have carried the origi¬
nal back and forth from one pro¬
gram to the other, ir is retained as
part of the image but is now simply

decorative. When restoring an image
back into the program, make certain
the original map legend has been
removed.

The second procedure is more
useful when adding individual areas
to a map. For example, although not
included as features on the original
plot, sections of Passaic and Middle¬
sex Counties are important to our
map. With the ASSIGN AREAS op¬
tion, MapMaker will trace their
outline and combine them with the
other map features. To do this,
how ever, an area must be enclosed
completely. That’s the purpose of
the lines truncating these counties at
the edge of our map.

At times, MapMaker can be a little
particular about assigning areas.
When an area is narrow and jagged-
edged, the entire outline may not be
read. If this occurs, an arbitrary Sine
will be formed at the points where
the trace “jumped” from one side of
the boundary to the other. When the
area is more open-ended, it may
seem to be assigned, but will not in
fact be recognized bv the program. If
either of these occurs, simple use the
DELETE AREAS/POINTS option and
start again. Clicking on another loca¬
tion in the area is usually all that is

Hu* on

Completed map with
population data graphed.
Changing the number of
data divisions shown in
the legend would result
in a different combination
of patterns. Choosing a
different data category
would change the graph
completely.

necessary to get the program to read
the outline properly. Watch for the
“outlining” and “flashing” of the
area on the screen, the characteristic
signals that it has been properly
assigned.

GRAPH AND THE WORLD GRAPHS
WITH YOU

MapMaker is a custom graph gen¬
erator, where data is displayed in
geographic form. Data can be intro¬
duced to any area or combination of
areas on a data entry screen bv
choosing ENTER VALUES from the
Assign menu and selecting the place
vou want the data to appear. The
program allows 30 data categories
and corresponding values but only
ten are displayed at a time. You can
toggle between Data Secs in the
Categories menu.

ASSIGN COMBINATIONS integrates
distinct map zones into single data
entry entities. After they have been
combined, areas arc linked for all
evaluative purposes. The component
areas cease to exist as distinct data
zones, previously entered data is
added to the total for the new com¬
bination, and subsequent data entry
can only be made for the new territo¬
ry as a whole.

MapMaker also lets vou specify
the organization of the data super¬
imposed on vour map. ASSIGN DIVE
SIGNS lets you create up to 35
groupings. You may also specify the
data range for each division or let
MapMaker perform the computation
for vou.

DATA MIGRATIONS

Data that has been manually en¬
tered into MapMaker 3 s data entry
tables may be transferred out by
using the EXPORT DATA option. The
“export” operation creates a text file
on disk, which may be accessed by
other programs. MapMaker will que¬
ry whether the Data Values (the
entire table) or Category Names (the
data template) are to be saved.

Figures generated within other
programs may be brought in with
the IMPORT DATA command. To
pass through Customs, data must be
saved by the original program as a
Text file and be properly formatted
(continued on page 170)

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GrayPaint is easy to

both love and hate.

WELL DOCTOR, HERE I AM
again,,- the same software review
syndrome, I thought I had every¬
thing worked out, but there’s a new
program, called GrayPaint, and IVe
got tills real love-hate thing with it.
You see, it's great because it lets vou
do what no other graphics program
lets vou do, but it's reallv frustrating
because ... well, let me start at the
beginning,

I was at the Mac Expo, and some

friends were raving about a program
they saw that worked with gray
tones. Well, you know' what happens
when I hear about new graphics
software, so I went from booth to
booth in search of GrayPaint until I
found the only vendor in the show
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As soon as I got home I ran the
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really ugly* It even has a typographi¬
cal error. Okav, I said to myself,
don't judge a book by its cover.

Well, maybe this time I should have
because, would vou believe it, the
program’s not finished. Some of the
menu choices aren’t working. My
Mac really bombed a couple of
times. Nowhere on the package did
it say, “Buyer beware, this is a pow¬
erful graphics program that’s only
semi-complete!”

For starters, the documentation,
27 pages of computer printed sheets
stapled together at the top, is full of
errors. It tells you to use the wrong
keys, it shows the wrong icon for a
function and it even explains options
that aren’t in the program.

No problem, right doc? Tell my
readers to stay away.

IT’S NEITHER BLACK NOR WHITE

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The finger tool is for
fingerpainting, Mac
style. Note how the gray
tones affect each other,
depending on where the
smear originates.

The right side of the line
has been treated with the
waterdrop. The lower line
is a magnification of the
top one.

A higher magnification of
the line in the previous
figure. This view
represents the midway
point between the actual
view and the highest
magnification the
program is capable of.

This image was
progressively made
darker, from left to right.

FIRST THE GOOD NEWS

But I can’t, because what docs
work is wonderful. You see, Gray-
Paint is a paint system for creating
and editing gray-level pictures* In
other paint programs, each pixel,
with one bit of information, can only
be white or black, but Gray Paint
keeps 8 bits per pixel so each pixel is
a level of gray. Command-clicking
on any of the 17 grays in the palette
changes It to the next darker level.
All in all you've got 64 gray levels to
work with. You can do nice things
with 64 levels of gray!

You can load in a ThunderSmn
GrayMap file and just keep building
it up or you can load in a standard
MacPaint document and work on it.
There’s a snag there, but III get to
that later.

I love the tools. When you draw
with the charcoal stick, you choose a
pressure setting and as you keep
going over a spot it gets darker and
darker. Like real charcoal. The pencil
lets you draw with any of the gray
tones from the palette. You can
command-click on a pixel in your
drawing and grab a gray from there.

There’s an unusual paintbrush.
The tip paints a wet or intense shade
of the tone while the edges sort of
lay down a dryer or lighter tone.
There are nine pens or brush shapes
to choose from and you're supposed
to be able to define your own only
that option didn't work. When I
tried it, my Mac put on a screen
display that rivaled 4th of July fire¬
works.

I've been saving the best for last.
The most exciting tools are the fin¬
ger and the water drop. With finger-
painting, your cursor is a finger and
it smears the picture's gray tones in
the direction of the stroke, just like
when you use your finger to blend a
charcoal or pastel drawing. It’s fan¬
tastic. The waterdrop is great too.
You use it to soften the edges of
your gray tones. Using the finger
and the waterdrop you can get the
most subtle shadings.

Gray Paint lets you save an entire
document, or a selected part, as a
MacPaint document or as a Gray-
Paint document. Be warned though,
that GrayPaint files arc huge! My
19K Einstein MacPaint document

S2MACUSER JANUARY 1987

The glass to the left was
created with Easy3Q,
Using GrayPaint ’s
"blurring' 1 capabilities,
the transitions between
gray tones were
smoothed out

The effects of blurring,
seen at one of the
magnification modes.
Note Ihe smoothness of
the gray tones in the
blurred version (left).

became a 1SOK Cray Paint docu¬
ment. Storing all that information
takes up lots of' space. Figure on
using at least eight rimes as much
space for GrayPaint documents.

There Ye lots of other features,
too. You can flip, invert, fill, darken,
lighten or blur a selected area. You
can keep zooming i n and out of your
picture and work on it in the differ¬
ent zoom levels.

Did I tell you that I love Gray¬
Paint? Well I do.

NOW THE BAD NEWS

So why canY I tell everyone to get
it? Because it's got lots of faults. Like
when you load in a MacPaint docu¬
ment von get only the top half of it.
The easel, (that's the area you Ye
working on) is only a 384 by 236
rectangle. That's small! And doc,
would you believe there's no Show
Page option. I mean, it's bad enough
having to scroll around this little
easel to get to different parts of your
picture, but never being able to see
the whole page? Worst of all, there's

no Undo function. Half the advan¬
tage of creating a it on a computer is
the ability to undo.

And don't forget, it isn't a finished
program. You can paste to the
Scrapbook but you can't copy from
it. I was sure the printing options
didn't work until I realized that the
program disk doesn't have a printer
driver installed on it. The printing
options are really nice if you don't
mind a system crash here and there.
If you want to print those huge
GrayPaint documents you'd better
have the program on an 800 K disk
or a hard disk. I lost a night's sleep
wondering how the user defined
palette option works because it isn't
discussed in the documentation.

So, maybe I should say it's a bad
deal.

YOU BE THE JUDGE

Still, I can give lots of reasons for
getting GrayPaint . Load in any black
and white image, use the paint brush
to add intervening levels of gray and
then use the water drop to blend

them together. The finger can smear
out any remaining sharp edges and
voila!

Touching up digitized images us¬
ing a paint program used to mean
hours dabbling in Fatbits, but with
GrayPaint it's a cinch. Images from
3D programs are typically composed
of discrete areas and the shading is
broken up into distinctive areas.
GrayPaint is perfect for smoothing
the transitions.

You can get lots of special effects
too. Load in a MacPaint image and
then, with the Edit window, lighten
it over and over again until the
whole picture is soft grays. Save it as
a paint document, bring it into a
regular paint program and type
something over the image. The re¬
sult is just like a professional sur-
printed image. Impressive!

So that's it doctor, it's love and
hate. Now, what do I tell my read¬
ers? Buy GrayPaint because it's an
exciting and powerful graphics utili¬
ty? Don't buy GrayPaint because it's
a buggy, unfinished product? I don't
know. I guess I'll just tell it like it is
and let them decide for themselves.
Thanks doc, I feel a lot better
now.

ROBERTA SCHWARTZ IS A BROOKLYN
GRAPHIC ARTIST AND WRITER,

GRAYPAINT

Overall Rating

Follows Mac Interface
Printed Documentation
On-Screen Help
Performance
Support

Consumer Value

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Comments: A potentially powerful paint
utility that lets you paint with 64 levels of
gray. Best Features: Unique graphics tools;
ability to create smooth transitions in
graphic objects. Worst Features: Unfin¬
ished program with many functions that
don 1 ! work. Loads only half of a MacPaint
document. Small working area. No Show
Page. No Undo, List Price: §59,95 Re¬
quires 512K+. BOOK disks or hard drive
preferred for printing. Published by Mac-
Nifty Central, 6860 Shingle Creek Parkway,
Minneapolis, MN 55430. (BOO) 328-0184.
Not copy protected-

JANUARY 1987 MACUSER83

LIGHTSPEED PASCAL
THE FUTURE REPEATS ITSELF.

JANUARY 1984* (Cupertino, Cali¬
fornia*)—Apple introduces the Macin¬
tosh™ At the press conference, six
software developers, including Micro¬
soft and Lotus, announce their commit¬
ment to the new machine* Among them
is THINK Technologies, a start-up de¬
veloper of advanced systems software.

THINK announces Macintosh Pas¬
cal. It is a breakthrough. For the first
time, a practical interactive interpreter
is available for Pascal. People can now
learn to program in a whole new way.
They can look inside their program and
get immediate feedback. Incorporating
the Mac interface in this programming
environment, THINK creates a new
future for the Macintosh in education.

Writing in The New York Times, Erik

Sandberg-Diment says “MacPascal
alone might be reason enough for the
college-bound science or engineering
major to purchase” a Mac. The product
becomes a standard in university com¬
puter science courses* Users are enthu¬
siastic. But in time they demand even
more from THINK.

AUGUST 1986* (Boston, Massa¬
chusetts.)—THINK introduces Light-
speed Pascal at Mac World Expo* It is a
breakthrough. It utilizes new compiling
and linking technology previously avail¬
able only with THINKS Lightspeed C
But it goes even further* Like Macintosh
Pascal, it provides the same ability to
look inside a program, but without the
need for an interpreter. It offers blinding
speed and the ability to build large pro¬

grams. The response is overwhelming.
In the first two weeks THINK sells
thousands.

Lightspeed Pascal marks a turning
point in programming the Mac. It has all
the features that made Macintosh Pascal
a standard. And much more. Now users
can create real standalone “double-
clickable” applications and desk acces¬
sories, THINK creates a new future for
M aci ntosh p rogr a mmer s.

Lightspeed Pascal is priced at $125.
It is not copy-protected* The package
includes a 600-page manual with ex¬
tensive index. It provides complete
Toolbox/OS support. It is compatible
with Macintosh Pascal and Lisa Pascal.

The future is here. Order Lightspeed
Pascal now*

Please send me Lightspeed Pascal today* Enclosed is $_for__copies* ($125/copy)

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You do more than spreadsheet calculations. Jazz K does more than that, too. Five times more than
that. More than any other single piece of software made for your Apple® Macintosh™ personal computer.

Five powerful functions—not just a smattering of this and that—but five functions deep enough
to stand alone: spreadsheet, database, word processing, graphics and communications.

All five so thoroughly integrated that they work beautifully together through a unique Jazz
feature called HotView.

With Jazz you can direct your attention to many projects—or many parts of the same project—
without changing programs. With Jazz you can revise or update information in one document or
several documents instantly. With Jazz you can work the way you work best.

All of which simply means this: you can be more productive, more effective—you can do more,
with Jazz, than you can with any other piece of software.

Go ahead. Get a demonstration at a Lotus authorized dealer.

Your Macintosh is capable of doing a lot more than spreadsheets. For that matter, so are you.

Business software for the Apple Macintosh integrating spreadsheet ,
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SO MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN
about desktop publishing recently,
that many people are starting to
believe that that is all the Macintosh
is good for. Apple then created oth¬
er, similar, marketing strategies for
Macintosh — desktop communica¬
tions, with the Mac positioned as a
smart terminal to connect to other
computers; desktop engineering, in
response to the large installed Mac¬
intosh base in engineering depart¬
ments and a tribute to the Mac's
graphic power, followed quickly on
the heels of communications.

But these strategies don’t cover
the majority of Mac users, the people
whose primary usages arc the tradi-

Apple’s new marketing

strategy is already

paying off for users.

er, and they are finally getting the
recognition they deserve with their
own marketing category: desktop
productivity.

Desktop productivity is a simple
concept. The use of microcomputers
to make a person more productive is
the basic principle that has propelled
the industry from day one. Desktop

t ion a I computer justifications: word
processing, data bases and spread¬
sheets* These are the bread-and-but¬
ter applications of the microcomput-

BY ROBERT R. WIGGINS AND ELLEN HIRAME

4MACUSER DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

BRIDGET STARR TVWLOR

DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

productivity links and enhances the
power of the basic applications com¬
puter users use most: word process¬
ing, data bases, and spreadsheets.
Desktop productivity goes bevon d
the ordinary productivity gains ex¬
pected of microcomputer users. It's
both a simplification and integration
of many concepts and many pro¬
grams.

The first productivity packages
simplv took ordinary office tasks and
made them faster. Them as the pro¬
grammers 5 skills developed and the
designers 1 horizons broadened, pro¬
ductivity packages added functiona¬
lity. Thev were not only faster, but
easier to use. Power became the
watchword. The constant goals w ere
more power and functionality. And
the goals were achieved, but at a
high price. The productivity pack¬
ages often became monsters — large,
demanding monsters. They required
huge amounts of memory, special
machine configurations, and lots of
user training. Indeed, a whole train¬
ing industry has grown up to sen e
the needs of “productivity' 1 software
users. Sonic of the more popular
packages take over a month to learn
well enough to actually achieve pro¬
ductivity gains. And, of course, these
programs rarely communicate their
end pn )duets re> other prt)grams, For
example, moling special graphics
into vour charting program can be¬
come a major time-eating project of
its own.

The Mac was designed to elimi¬
nate most of those problems. The
enforced uniform interface cuts
learning times dramatically — often
bv a factor of 10 or more. The
standard data interprogram mecha¬
nism, the Clipboard, can, in most
cases, move formatted data between
d i s pa rate p rt >g ra m s.

What ail that means is that the
desktop metaphor adds its own pro¬
ductivity gains to those provided bv
the programs themselves. Indeed, it
can be argued that the biggest por¬
tion of the large productivity gains
reported bv Mac users is the result of
the cohesive environment the Mae
has, and has fostered among the
many great applications that it now
supports.

WORD PROCESSING

In the beginning there was Mnc-
Wntc, It came free with every Mac
and helped the underpowered 128K
machine stay alive until help came
along. While AlacW'rite lacked some
of the high-lev el features available in
word processing programs on other
computers, it was very easy to use
and showcased the Macintosh
graphic interface. Mac Write and
Word made it clear to anyone who
took the time to look that Macintosh

D esktop produc¬
tivity is both a
simplification
and an integration of
many concepts and
many programs.

was the only choice for word pro¬
cessing.

Then came the event which is now
threatening to engulf the Macintosh
universe with word processors: the
unbundling of AlacWrite. It isn't
free anymore. Mac buyers, like all
micro buyers, must select and pay
for their own word processors.

Now the Mac user is faced (or will
be soon) with choices like Mind -
Write s Haim Word, LascrQjtilL WrF
tcNo\\\ Word Handler , and even Eji-
Word (for Japanese word
processing) and Fei Ada (for Chi¬
nese). Then there is a plethora of
accessories such as spelling checkers,
with names like Spdls\vdl f Mac -
Liflhtninjj, Liberty Spell Checker t
Hayden Speller, MacCas , ThunderL
MacSpdl +„ MaeSpclllliffhL The Rijjljt
Word , and Spelling Champion , And
there are special interest products
like Document Compare y Maclndcxci\
MacH rpbcu, MegaFon ns, and Quick-
Word.

One reason the Macintosh is such
a fantastic word processor is its abili¬
ty to mix and match a word process¬
ing program with spelling checkers

and other accessories to create a
customized package. Coupled with
the Mac's interface, its graphics capa¬
bilities and the availability of multi¬
ple fonts, the Macintosh is rapidly
becoming the word processor of
choice for everyone. Just trv to pry
one away from a secretary after a few
weeks of use.

SPREADSHEETS

The productivity application that
realiv made the microcomputer mar¬
ket take off was the spreadsheet.
Accountants, middle managers, fi¬
nancial analysts, investors and others
were suddenly freed from the drudg¬
ery of laboriously recalculating rows
and columns of figures on green
ledger sheets.

The Macintosh makes spread¬
sheets even easier to use (and there¬
fore even more productive). The
mouse makes moving about the
worksheet simple, and the always
available menus mean no more com¬
mands to memorize. Microsoft's
Multiplan came first, then Crunch,
then Excel (perhaps the finest spread¬
sheet program for any microcomput¬
er) and the latest, and possibly fastest
entry, MacCalc. Resides these heavy¬
weights* almost every integrated
p ae k age is built art )un d a s p re a d s h cct
( in fact. Excel and CruneJj are techni¬
cally integrated packages, but their
spreadsheets are too good not to
mention here).

As the article “Head to Head” in
this supplement makes clear, Mac
spreadsheets don't multiply the fast¬
est, However, since they generally
work more intelligently (no constant
brute-force, entire-worksheet recal¬
culations), they can bring up results
faster. They can also import and
export their data to a wide variety of
programs more easily. Thus, less
time is lost making use of the results.
And that is what the “productivity
game” is all about.

DATA BASES

The ability to store large quanti¬
ties of information and easily retriev e
it in different wavs, or massage the
data to answer questions or draw
inferences is now a very necessary
business ability. Data (getting it.

DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY MACUSER5

GETTING PRODUCTIVE

storing it, finding it, manipulating it
and reporting it) is the lifeblood of
both the manufacturing and service
industries.

The Macintosh lagged behind
other microcomputers at first in the
data base area, primarily due to the
unavailability of mass storage (hard
disks), but this is changing fast.

Business File vision offers a unique
graphic data base; Fact Finder is a
freeform tile manager; Microsoft's
File offers some graphic storage ca¬
pabilities; Helix uses icons extensive¬
ly and like Omnis 3 pros ides relation¬
al capabilities; and OverVUE is a
flexible data base. With choices like
these and FileMaker Pins for easy
forms management, dBase Mac, Re¬
flex , MacBast\ R ecord Holder , and
dMac III, people with data storage
and retrieval problems can now pick
and choose to get the program that
most closely fits their needs.

Large amounts of data means
large amounts of storage space are
needed. The original Mac design
made no allowances for hard disks.
The first units were expensive and
their performance could well be de¬
scribed as clunky. They did a job,
but at a horrible cost. Indeed, they
were said to be “counterproductive. 11

One of the major new features of
the Mac Plus was its SCSI port,
specifically designed to host a hard
disk or disks. Manufacturers have
responded to the '"opening 1 ” into the
Mae market, and as of press time at
least 20 different units were on the
market. The worst offers perfor¬
mance two to three times better than
the best of the old units, and many
are much better than that. And
prices are dropping rapidly. Already
hard disks can he had for a quarter of
the av erage price of only 18 months
ago.

The price bottom has not been
reached, either. Since the new Apple
IlCiS also uses SCSI hard disks, the
potential market is much enlarged It
seems reasonable to expect further
price drops of 25 to 50 percent ov er
the next year.

INTEGRATION

Integrated software packages were
the first microcomputer programs
that specifically focused on produc¬

tivity as a design goal. Several differ¬
ent functions were provided in one
program, usually with the ability for
one function to easily use data that
was created bv another function of
the program, such as drawing graphs
of spreadsheet data. Unfortunately,
in order to put several applications
into one program, it was, and is,
often necessary to sacrifice some
functionality, so that the whole can
be less than the sum of the parts.
Developers of integrated software

T he Macintosh
was designed to
eliminate most
problems that faced
early productivity pro¬
grams on other micros.

for the Macintosh face an additional
obstacle, in that the Macintosh inter¬
face is designed to facilitate the shar¬
ing of data between programs.
Numbers can be copied out of
spreadsheets and pasted into word
processors and vice versa, and even
graphics can be readily moved be¬
tween applications. So while Lotus
Symphony on the IBM PC offered
(for IBM's) an amazing ability to
share data and sold fairly well, Lotus
Jazz on the Macintosh could only
otier sc>me enhancemerlts ofan abili¬
ty' already designed into the Mac
interface, and sold less brisklv.

To date, the only integrated pack¬
age that has been a huge success on
the Macintosh is Excel, but its suc¬
cess is more due to its power both as
a spreadsheet and a charting pro¬
gram, than to the fact that it also
offers integration and a limited data
base capability. But this hasn't de¬
terred software developers. Micro¬
soft has just released its integrated
package, Microsoft Works,

PRODUCTIVE IDEAS

As microcomputer use has grown,
developers have discovered new

ways ro make users more productiv e.
One such innovation is "idea pro¬
cessing," or outlining, pioneered by
Living VideoTcxt with Think'Fank,
and more recently with MORE, but
also available in a desk accessory
called Acta from Symmetry. By put¬
ting ideas, thoughts and plans into
outline format, relationships can be¬
come apparent, and structure can be
forced on the most unstructured
mind. While it may be just outlining,
it really does cause some "idea pro¬
cessing" to occur. MORE takes the
concept several steps hevond, allow¬
ing information ro be presented in¬
stantly as bullet charts or in tree
diagrams.

Productivity is often best en¬
hanced bv creating an entirely new
type of program. Outline processors
are one of the best examples of this.
The idea is not new, but the machine
that could support it was always
lacking. Outlines arc merely words,
but words arranged graphically. And
for an outline to be useful, the words
must be manipulated graphically.
Sounds like part of the Mac's design
spec, doesn't it:

WHAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE?

So, haven't we said that any mi¬
crocomputer is a desktop productivi¬
ty machine: Isn't that what business
computing is all about? Of course it
is, but the Macintosh is the desktop
productivity machine, with the easy-
to-learn, easv-to-use and consistent
Macintosh interface, with icons and
the mouse and pull-dawn menus.
The Cut and Paste capabilities be¬
tween applications make the Macin¬
tosh the most integrated microcom¬
puter, with or w ithout "integrated"
software.

Sure, some people buy Macintosh
because of its desktop publishing
capabilities, some for desktop com¬
munications and others for engineer¬
ing applications, but when you get
right down to it, you bought your
Mac to be more productive, didn't
you? I know I did. ^

ROBERT R WIGGINS IS A NEW YORK-
BASED COMPUTER CONSULTANT AND
WRITER. ELLEN HIRAMF IS A NORTHERN
NEW JERSEY COMPUTER WRITER LOOK¬
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Unobstructed displays of several windows simul¬
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which the Macintoshhas been able to give you only
part of the story. Until now*, that is.

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The Radius FPD™ works side by side with your
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That means less scrolling. Less enlarging and reducing.
And, because your Macintosh doesn’t sit idle, a much
more useful way to work.

The FPD extends your investment in the Macintosh.

Lay out a page on the FPD, for example, while the
Macintosh holds tools, palettes, desk accessories, and
other windows. Or treat the two screens as a single,
contiguous display, viewing large, horizontal documents.
Even drag text or graphics between the two.

The FPD is in every way an extension of your Macintosh,
from the electronics to the aesthetics. But then,
there’s a good reason for that.

The team that developed the Radius FPD is the same
group of experts that designed and built the original
Macintosh. Which means you're assured of the highest-
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Take MORE into a

meeting and get a lot

more out of it.

I WENT INTO VVEZARD INTERNA-
tionafs staff meeting prepared to be
bored out of my skull. Meetings are
always dull, uninspired arenas for
petty politics, wasteful of time and
energy and minimally productive, I
usually spend the majority of my
time in meetings doodling airplanes
or birds, which I know from my
college psychology class are images
representing a desire to escape.

One time in a meeting I was so
bored that I spent the entire 6 hours
— okay, so it was probably an hour
and a half in real time, but my
metabolism clocked 6 hours in meet¬
ing mode—calculating how much
work we could have been doing if
we weren't in the meeting, I figured
that any one of us could hav e accom¬
plished the same amount of work as
the group assembled—in approxi¬
mately one fourth the time.

Anvway, I didn’t expect this par¬
ticular meeting to be any different. I
went into it expecting to see flip
charts dial would soon be covered
with Magic Marker hieroglyphics;
overhead projectors showing hastily
prepared transparencies, a 6-inch
pile of largely useless handouts, the
usual stuff, I also went in prepared
to get as much out of the meeting as
I possibly could—I had 200 pages of
quality doodling paper and seven
fine-point felt pens at the ready.

As it turned out, I was totally
unprepared for what happened. I
walked into a room set up with only

MORE IN MEETINGS

DOING

SMACUSER DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

JIM IU0TKE

DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

a table and chairs, a Macintosh com¬
puter, a video monitor and a printer.
I walked out slightly dazed carrying
four sheets of brilliantly organized
information and a clear set of goals
to achieve over the next several days.
I wasn’t even aware at the time that 1
had left behind 200 sheets of doo¬
dling paper, untouched.

FOCUSING IN

The meeting was a focus group,
where half a dozen of us met to
suggest ways to solve a problem that
had been identified at the last board
meeting. In this case, it had been
noted that our division was consis¬
tently late with paperwork and never
managed to complete a project on
time. The delays had cost the compa¬
ny thousands of dollars over the past
6 months.

Several things had become com¬
monplace in meetings of this type.
Discussion quickly strayed oft' the
topic at hand and concentrated on
trivial policy issues or political pos¬
turing. But there was something
different about this meeting—be¬
sides the presence of the Macintosh
—- from the minute it began.

The division manager led the
group and established an agenda for
the meeting. But instead of having
the agenda typed out and giving
everyone a printed copy, she used a
program called MORE , and listed
four specific goals on the Macintosh
screen. They were displayed in the
form of a bullet chart on a large
monitor that she had placed light
next to her at the front of the table.
Her secretarv sat at the Mac, freeing
the division manager to facilitate the
discussion.

The division manager quickly
went over the four goals, then
spelled out the problem that we were
to analyze. The whole time she was
talking, the four goals were there
before our eves, reminding us con¬
stantly of the task set out for us.

When the division manager fin¬
ished describing the problem, the
screen changed to an outline display.
Her secretary highlighted the second
goal—Suggest possible causes—and
with a couple of keystrokes he had
changed the image on die monitor
so it showed only the item at hand.

(Pardon me for intruding here,
but I need to provide a practical way
for me to tell you about specific
actions. In this instance, the key¬
strokes used by the clever secretary
are COMMAND- H for HOIST. This
command takes a subhead out and
temporarily raises it to title status.)

The group manager had her secre¬
tary time stamp the headline on the
screen. She gave us a deadline of 15
minutes, then she set us on a course
of brainstorming—throwing out
ideas without comment or prejudice,
just to generate as many possibilities
as we could. It took us a minute or
two to get away from the personal
attacks and snide remarks that were
our custom, but once we got used to
the idea we all got involved in mak¬
ing (mostly) useful suggestions. The
secretary recorded every idea as an
item below the main headline—not
attempting to organize them yet, just
to list them.

At the end of the brainstorming
period we had accumulated close to
50 different elements that might be
contributing to the problem. We
then went back and examined each
one closely, evaluating it for merit.
We could see each item displayed on
the monitor as we worked. The
secretary was able to pick up ideas
and move them up or down in the
list just with the mouse. Through
discussion, we were able to eliminate
many ideas that had no practical
value.

We were also able to combine
some of the suggestions with similar
points made elsewhere. The secre¬
tary would mark topics that seemed
similar, then collect them into a
group (using Mark— COMMAND-M
— and Gather— COMMAND-G) . It
w as easy to see repetitive points and
patterns of thought using this tech¬
nique. After a few minutes, the list
had been culled to a reasonable,
workable collection of six key areas
that could be contributing to the
problem.

The division manager assigned
one of us to investigate each of the
areas mentioned. The secretary just
typed our names under die assigned
topic (using Return for a new line,
followed by COMMAND-R to indent
the name one level).

I was convinced that the division
was shorthanded, so it fell to me to
compile a list of all our people and
their general responsibilities, as well
as to evaluate their productivity over
the following week. The secretary
typed this information into a nota¬
tion window below my assignment.
(By double clicking on the indent
mark next to a headline, the secretary
could open a text window for notes.)

We completed the meeting by
agreeing to reconvene at the same
time in a week. This information was
recorded, then the secretary used
MORE to print a complete list of
what we had discussed and gave each
of us a copy. I checked my watch on
the way out—wc had finished in
under an hour.

As I was leaving, the division
managers secretary suggested that 1
get a copy of MORE and use it to
help me organize my assignment. He
needn’t have bothered—I had al¬
ready decided to requisition a copy
as soon as I left the meeting.

MANAGING A PROJECT

I was going to be ready for the
next meeting. Using MORE, I com¬
piled a list of personnel and their
responsibilities. I started to make a
list by department, but soon realized
that I really needed several lists. The
first was a list of everyone by depart¬
ment, organized in a hierarchy and
with a detailed breakdown of re¬
sponsibilities. But I also needed a
complete roster, with everyone’s
name in alphabetical order with their
job title. Once created, this list
would remain unchanged. I also
needed a duplicate of the alphabeti¬
cal roster to manipulate.

I wasn’t very anxious to cut and
paste everyone’s name into a new
list. I was about to give up and use a
data base when I discovered that I
could actually do everything I need¬
ed to with MORE. I named the
outline “DIVISION PERSON¬
NEL,” began with departments as
headlines, then listed each person’s
name, followed bv the special char¬
acter (above the RETURN key
on the old Mac keyboard; just below
the period on the new) and his or
her job title. I did this to help with
my presentation later on.

DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY MACUSER9

DOING MORE IN MEETINGS

HOW TO RUN YOUR MEETINGS WITH MORE

L Preparation

A. Outlining

1. Organize the meeting

a. Prepare agenda

b. Keep topics and
information focused

c. Organize into bullet
chart to key on issues

B, Set up the meeting

1. Mac with MORE

2, Monitor placed in strategic
position

Focus group

A. Brainstorm

1. Generate ideas rapidly
without prejudice

2, Have one person record in
outline form with MORE,

B. Move things around to identify
priorities

1. Use Mark and Gather to
identify, collect patterns

2. Hoist to focus on specific
issues

C. Come to agreement on a plan

D. Use time stamping to track
progress

E. Provide printout of final results
before leaving

III. Project Planning

A. Start with results of small
group brainstorming

B. Organize ideas into a timeline

C. Collect data

1. Use MORE as list manager
to organize data
0. Evaluate
1. Calculate

a. time

b. resources

1. make a tree chart
to show
hierarchies

c. costs

E, Assemble plan of action with
MORE in simple steps

IV. Presenting the idea

A. Organize ideas in bullet chart
format

1. Incorporate graphs, charts
or other illustrations

B. Proceed through outline as
bullet chart once through

C. Repeat slowly to give people
time to comment

1, Bounce from bullet to
outline view to add
comments

D. Get agreement on each topic
before proceeding

E. Save changes to incorporate
into final project plan

► ►

Focus Group Meeting; Tuesday. October M

1. Clarify this problem

2 . Suggest possible causes

3. Assign follow-up responsibilities

4. Establish a time to meet with results

► ► ► ► ►

I FocmGroupMeeting i

Brainstorming - What's Causing the Problem?

+ Department is under-equlpped

“ Not enough ffccs to handle the workload

- Regional ts fabricating the problem to assert power

- Deportment Is under-stoffed

- Too mongi Incompetent employees

> Paperwork gets trapped In n bottleneck at Accounting

- Too many Incompetent managers

+ Sales never does paperwork right the first time
- Always has to be sent back for corrections

> Projects are poorly planned at regional level

> Same required paperwork Is unnecessary

- Poor communication between department

> Projects poorly organized at department level

- Lack of leadership In the division _

f> Projects poorly pianned at division level!

•• !i "’- i. - r - -

mm

si

j FocusGroupMeeting

gathered headlines - Organizational Problems|

Paperwork gets trapped In a bottleneck at Accounting
Projects are poorly planned at regional level
Some required paperwork Is unnecessary
Projects poorly organized at department level
Projects poorly planned at division level

! FocusGroupMeeting j

[Organizational Problems!

+ Projects are poorly planned

- at regional level

- at division level

- at department level

- Paperwork gets trapped In a bottleneck at Accounting

- Some required paperwork Is unnecessary

► ►►►►►►

Howard, Eric
Sales
Manager

Samuels,

Deborah

Manager

Telemarketing

1

Sanchez, Jackie
Team Leader
Outside Sales

In wood, Clark
Manager
Sales Services

Keller, Linda
Telemarketing

* -\

London, Thomas

Roberts, Franklin

Outside Sales

Outside Sales

* _ -

^^

Eriedaa Greta
Sales Assistant

Watson, Steve
Telemarketing

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As I entered the information, I
used COMMAND-M to Mark each of
the items that I wanted to put into
my second list. When I finished
entering everyone's information, I
pressed Return to start a new head¬
line and typed COMMAND-G to Gath¬
er all the headlines I had marked.
From the dialog box that came up I
selected the option to CLONE
MARKED HEADLINES. All the items I
had marked appeared in a list under
the name “gathered headlines. 94 I
selected this item, re tided ir “Alpha¬
betical Roster,” and moved it left to
make it a major headline.

I now had everyone’s name and
job title in one list, hut they were
still in the same hierarchical order by
department and 1 needed them al¬
phabetized, With the headline Al-
phabetical Roster selected, I chose
an option in the Reorganize menu
called SORT ASCENDING and the
whole list was yen' quickly reassem¬
bled in alphabetical order

It was on this list that I charted
everyone’s daily tasks and recorded
the approximate time spent on
each one. I used MOKE *s built-in
calculation to total each person’s
“time on task. 1 ’ I then made a dupli¬
cate of this list to play with.

With mv information so well or¬
ganized, I suddenly discovered sever¬
al things that I hadn’t known before.

I was able to see where responsibil¬
ities overlapped. Our division wasn’t
understaffed, as I had believed, but
many tasks were being duplicated.
Some of our people were overbur¬
dened, but others had a marked
amount of time that wasn’t being
used productively, I rearranged tasks
in the list, eliminated duplication of
effort and found that we should be
able to handle every assigned task on
time with the staff we had.

It was obvious to me from the
breakdown I had done with MORE
that the primary reason for our cur¬
rent mess was a lack of coordination
and communication between depart¬
ments, Each of the department heads
— myself included—had lost track of
what the other groups were doing.

Anyway, I cleaned up my outlines
and made sure of all my facts. I then
used MORE to outline a strategy for
implementing the changes.

ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH

I think the other department
heads were a little computer phobic.
While all of them had been as im¬
pressed as I was with die use of
MORE and the Mac in our previous
meeting, I was the only one who had
jumped right into the technology.
Needless to say, I wasn’t disappoint¬
ed to discover this. I was all set to
blow everyone away,

The division manager had again
arranged our agenda on the Mac
screen. After a brief restating of the
problem, each of us was going to
present what we had learned during
the week. I was scheduled to go last,
sc? I waited patiently while everyone
else brought out piles of paperwork
to justify their existence and to pro¬
mote maintaining the status quo in
their departments. (Okay, so I’m
biased and it wasn’t really that bad,
but I have to make a point here.)

When my turn came, I simply put
my MORE data disk into the Mac
and opened my report right on top
of our agenda. I was able to go
through my original list of employee
responsibilities and point out the
areas I thought needed to be
changed. When 1 showed the group
the time-on-task breakdown, every¬
one was amazed, including the divi¬
sion manager. To make die presenta¬
tion more dramatic, I calculated one
person’s total time on task on screen
(by selecting the headline and typing
COMMAND = ),

Then I took my revised list and
presented it as a tree chart. The
group couldn’t believe that I hadn’t
spent hours preparing die chart, but
by using the character in my list, I
had set up the information to be
displayed properly. All I had to do to
get MORE to generate the chart was
type COMM AND-J

Before anyone had time to react,
though, I had jumped ahead to the
next step, I quickly returned to my
outline and selected the section I had
set up to present my implementation
strategy. I designed my plan with
just a handful of simple goals, such
as Reorganize Department Struc¬
ture. Below eacli headline I had
listed the three or four actions neces¬
sary to accomplish the main goal. 1
then went through each goal as a

bullet chart, giving everyone just
enough (but not too much) time to
absorb each item.

The bullet chart format made ev¬
erything so clear that we used it as a
stepping off point to evaluate my
plan. After the initial presentation,
we went through each goal slowly as
a group, with everyone having the
opportunity to comment or suggest
changes.

In several cases someone had an
idea better than the one I had sug¬
gested, or was able to add something
that 1 had missed. With MORE , it
was easy to go back into the outline
view, change the item under discus¬
sion and redisplay it on the bullet
chart. We continued this format for
the entire plan, only moving on
when we had reached agreement.
Within a short period of time, we
had agreed on all the major goals
and on strategies to implement
them. Moreover, the division man¬
ager put me in charge of carrying out
the plan.

MORE FROM MORE

It is now six months later and I
have just been named the new man¬
ager of our division, the only divi¬
sion ever to show a 30 percent
increase in productivity in such a
short period of time and with reduc¬
tions in expenditures. Headquarters
was so pleased with the results we
achieved that I have been asked to
make a presentation at our annual
meeting. There will be over 1500
people there, so I have decided to
get a projection system to display mv
AIQ11E bullet charts on a large
screen at the front of the auditorium,
and set up monitors on the sides so
everyone can see.

Fortunately all the outline w ork is
done, as much of mv time these days
is occupied, I just finished using
MORE to compile my resume, and I
am about to begin writing a business
plan with MORE, I have this great
idea about starting a new company
on the side to teach management
how to improve their meetings.

MICHAEL LX WESLEY IS THE WEST COAST
EDITOR OF MACUSER. WEZARD INTERNA¬
TIONAL IS A FANCY FIGMENT OF HIS
IMAGINATION.

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12MACUSER DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

AKIO MATSUYOSHI

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“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROYS
and girls, welcome to the Integrated
Circus! Thrill to the dangers of the
flying spreadsheet! Marvel at the
fabulous tricks performed bv the
trained data base! Smile and laugh
and sing along to the strains of
Word Processors on Parade! You'll
see feats of daring never seen before
in the history of computing! See the
battle royal of integrated software!
See all the applications you'll ever
need assembled under one root 1 Step
right up ladies and gentlemen, and
enjoy the Greatest Show on Mac!”

CIRCUS OF THE STARS

The most popular program ever
released for the Apple II was a piece

Are five rings better

than four? Here’s a

head-to-head

comparison of MS

Works and Jazz.

of integrated software called
Apple Works, It combined the three
most often used productivity tools
—- a spreadsheet,, a data base and a
word processor — into one easy-to-

use program. Apple Works achieved
just the right balance between power
and ease of use and was eagerly
adopted by novices and experienced
users alike.

That the Macintosh, noted for its
case of use, has not yet had a similar
successful integrated program is
something of a mystery. The first
AppleWorksA ike program for the
Mac was Jazz, by Lotus, w hose inte¬
grated success in the IBM world is
the stuff of legend. Although Jazz
sold and continues to sell reasonably
well, it has never captured the imagi¬
nation of Mac users in the way
Apple Works did with the Apple II
communin'.

The biggest problems with Jazz

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INTEGRATED CIRCUS

were timing and marketing. Jazz was
made to plav on a stage that, was ton
small. The 512K Mac with its 400R
drives really prevented Jazz from
swinging. In addition, most users
were expecting Lotus to come out
with 1-2-3 for the Mac and were
disappointed when Jazz didn't sup¬
port macros and spreadsheet linking.

Jazz should have been touted as
Apple Works for the Mac but Lotus
was not able to make this connection
with its potential buyers. Instead of
being perceived as a powerful inte¬
grated productivity tool, Jazz, was
looked upon as an inferior 1-2-3.
With the release of version LA*
Lotus has significantly enhanced
Jazz's performance and the compa¬
ny's recent ads remind us that Jazz is
“More Than a Spreadsheet A

With Works, the problems of tim¬
ing and customer perception seem to
have been avoided. Works is de¬
signed for the Lmegabyte Mac Plus
(although it w ill work comfortably
on a 512K Enhanced), and its close
relationship with Apple Works is not
lost in its marketing plan. Users will
be expecting MS Works to be
Apple Work for the Mac.

Both Jazz and Works have features
that can make life easier for Mac
users. How do they compare? Is one
clearly better than the other? And if
you are looking for an integrated
solution, which one is best for you?

SHOULD 1 RUN AWAY AND JOIN?

There are two primary advantages
of integrated programs:

•You can quickly and easily
switch back and forth between sever¬
al applications.

•All the applications can easily
share the same data.

With the advent of Switcher and
the Mac's standard means of in teg ra¬

tion, the Clipboard, these advan¬
tages are less significant to a Mac
user than to users of other comput¬
ers. However, there are still benefits
to be gained in time and effort saved.
It is very convenient to load one
program and use it all day, rather
than switch applications each time
you need to do something different.

I f vou often switch between a data
base and a word processor or a
spreadsheet and a graph, you might
find it more productive to work with
an integrated program than to run
two separate applications under
Switcher.

The major drawback with inte¬
grated programs is that each module
is usually less powerful than its
standalone counterpart. Word, is
more powerful than the word pro¬
cessor in Jazz or TBS' Works , Most
people would have an easier time
writing a novel with Word than with
an integrated package. But if your
needs can be met with the capabili¬
ties of an integrated package, then it
can often be the better buy, both in
terms of dollars and efficiency.

SETTING UP THE BIGTOP

Both Jazz and Works come on
800K disks with a backup. You mav
copy the disks but will need to insert
the master disk for an ID check
when using a copy. Works will let
you install the program only once on
a hard disk. Jazz allows unlimited
hard disk installations. If you have a
512K Mac without an BOOK drive,
you can request the program in the
400K format from Lotus or Micro¬
soft.

THE HEAT IS ON

Both Works and Jazz support the
Clipboard for transferring text or
graphic images. Jazz also has a spec¬
tacular feature called HotView. I Ior-
View allows vou to maintain dynam¬
ic linking between documents. If
you have some spreadsheet data rep¬
resented by a graph, you can update
the graph by making changes to the
spreadsheet. With a HotView link,
the graph is automatically' updated
when the data in the spreadsheet is
changed.

Furthermore, you may have a
HotView of your graph incorporat¬

ed into your word processing docu¬
ment. The graph will be updated in
your word processing report, even if
the document is not currently
opened.

When you move data with Cut
and Paste to another module in jazz
or Works, it is “dead” and will not
reflect anv changes to the source
module. However, it can be edited.
Hot Views may not be edited direct¬
ly. Instead they are treated as Mac¬
Paint art and do not allow any
additional text entry or formatting.
To “edit” data in a HotView win¬
dow, vou must update the source
document.

Since Works docs not have a Hot-
View, all of its integration is accom¬
plished by cutting and pasting from
one module to another. Let's take a
quick tour of the programs and
compare them module by module.

IN THE FIRST RING: WORDS

The Works word processor is very
good. It lias many of the features of
Word combined with the ease of use
of Mac Write. Like Word, it is para¬
graph oriented and supports the cur¬
sor (arrow) keys on the Mae Plus
keyboard. You can cut and paste
formats, and scroll horizontally as
well as vertically. Like MacWrite, the
Works word processor displays the
page number in the elevator box and
provides a Go To Page menu option.

Above and beyond the usual, the
Works word processor sets a new
standard for integrating art and text.
Unlike Mac Write and Word, Works
accepts Aloe Paint images as overlays.
As a result, vou can add text to the
side of, or on top of imported
artwork. Works also supports a draw¬
ing feature that will allow vou to
draw simple lines and shapes around
text.

jazz does not provide the drawing
and unique art treatment of Works?
nor does it provide a Go To Page
menu option. Unlike Works , the Jazz
word processor does show multiline
headers and footers, and graphics
can be inserted in either. Both deci¬
mal and text tabs are supported by
Jazz , while Works supports only text
tabs.

Works and Jazz both allow for the
easy merging of data base fields into

14 M A C U S E R DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

D E S

a word processing document to cre¬
ate personalized form letters, and
both programs allow you to view
either the data base field names or
the actual data, jazz also provides
fixed printing sizes for mailing and
business labels. Works lets you con¬
figure your own label sizes.

THE CENTER RING: DATA BASE

This is where jazz really boogies.
The jazz data base module is a full-
featured program, equal in perfor¬
mance to many standalone packages.
You may name and save multiple
queries, and each query can contain
as many as 100 search criteria. The
Jazz data base provides a three level
sort. In addition, you may select
non-adjacent fields and then operate
on them as if they were continuous
fields. The iion-adjacent fields can be
printed, cut and pasted, or used in a
Hot View as if they were adjacent.

jazz provides many options for
printing data base records. Records
can be printed directly from the
screen with or without gridlines and
record numbers. They can also be
integrated into the word processor
where they can be formatted and
edited like any text, and updated via
Hot View. Reports can be printed or
saved as a text file.

Creating reports with the Jazz
data base is somewhat difficult. It’s
not intuitive at all. Instead of point¬
ing and selecting fields to he includ¬
ed in a report, they must be typed in
and formatted individually. Right
margins are not seen until a report
has been printed.

For all its drawbacks, the Jazz data
base is still quite powerful and flexi¬
ble although somewhat difficult to
use. Reports can provide statistical
information such as count, maxi¬
mum, average, sum, standard devi¬
ation, etc.

The Works data base is easier to
use but not nearly as capable as its
counterpart in Jazz . Works displays,
but does not print, record numbers
and there are no statistical functions
in the report generator. Therefore,
you cannot know the number of
records in vour data base unless vou
paste them into the spreadsheet or
select the last record. Another limita¬
tion is that you cannot preview your

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reports. Works does allow you to see
summaries and subtotals (in the
Clipboard of all places!) and you can
paste the totals into a word process¬
ing document. Only single field sorts
are allowed and queries cannot be
saved or named.

Both programs feature forms for
single record data entry or review. In
Jazz you may have an unlimited
amount of data entry forms for each
data base. With Jazz forms you can
add text instructions and/or com¬
ments, determine which fields ap¬
pear in the form, and print all or a
selected group of the forms.

Works allows only one form but it
is part of the data base and does not
have to be opened as a separate
document as do the Jazz forms. No
text instructions are allowed in
Works , all fields must be present, and
the forms must be printed manually,
one at a time. Works will let you save
a group of selected records in a new
file, but Jazz will not.

AND IN RING 3: SPREADSHEET

Both spreadsheets arc good and
will be enough for many people,
although neither provides a macro
capability or linking feature.

The Works spreadsheet allows you
to have horizontally and vertically
split screens. You can use the bold¬
face and/or underline options on any
cell or range of cells although you
are limited to one font and size
(Geneva 9). Works formulas are
compatible with Excel so you can
easily import a Works spreadsheet
into Excel, As with the Works data
base, the spreadsheet displays page
breaks and the right margin so you
don't waste paper and time getting a
spreadsheet to fit on a page.

Perhaps the greatest drawback to
the Works spreadsheet is the inability
to name cells and ranges. It is much
easier to work with a formula like
=Sum( Principle) * Rate than
=Stmi(B2:B5) * E17 . Although its
54 functions will be all that many
users need, they do not contain
functions to allow you to work with
text or dates in formulas.

The Jazz spreadsheet is a real
heavyweight, weighing in with 95
functions, the same as Lotus' 1-2-3.
In addition to providing the text and

date functions missing in Works,
Jazz allows you to name cells and
ranges. It also provides the ability to
set and calculate one and two-way
table (what-if) and distribution
ranges. You can use any available
font and style bur these affect an
entire worksheet. They cannot be
altered on a cell by cell basis.

Jazz lacks the capability to split
windows and show the right margin.
When you print “sideways” you
must use the trial and error method
to fit the spreadsheet to the page. In
Works you can search a cell for a
value or a text string. Jazz does not
provide any way to search cells.

Graphics functions are part of the
spreadsheet in Works, In Jazz they
arc separate modules. Jazz provides
more ways to work with graphs then
docs Works. While its options are
not as extensive as Excel’s you can
display several versions of a graph
simultaneously and use any of 24
patterns, 14 line styles, and 13 sym¬
bols to enhance your charts. Works
provides limited but adequate capa¬
bilities for the average user and al¬
lows you to transfer charts to Alac -
Draw for additional graphics
support.

The biggest drawback to the
Works graphics module is the selec¬
tion process. You are presented with
a dialog box and have to type in the
cell ranges to be charted. Jazz uses
the easier method of selecting the
cell ranges with the mouse.

THE SIDE RING: COMMUNICATIONS

Communications modules in both
Jazz and Works operate on about the
same level as MacTcnninal although
each has some significant plusses and
minuses. Neither Works nor Jazz
provides auto logon macros. Jazz of¬
fers terminal emulation (VT100)

DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY MACUSER15

INTEGRATED CIRCUS

WORKS & JAZZ DATA SHEET

Module

Works

Jazz

Installation

Copy Protected

No

Yes

Hard Oisk Install

Once

Unlimited

Cost

299

399

Word Processor

Orientation

Paragraph

Ruler

Goto Page #

Yes

No

Horizontal scrolling

Yes

Yes

Copy Formatting

Yes

No

Text next to art

Yes

No

Multiline headers/footers w/graphics

No

Yes

Live data from other modules (HotView)

No

Yes

Mail merge

Yes

Yes

Dynamic page breaks

Yes

Yes

Drawing capability

Yes

No

Document Length (512K. Mac Plus)

(70,200)

(18,35)

Database

Print records without a report

No

Yes

Show record numbers

No

Yes

Name & save queries

No

Yes

Select non-adjacent fields

No

Yes

Change format of existing fields

Yes

Yes

Simultaneous sort levels

1

3

Change fonts/size

No

Yes (Global only)

Bold/underline selected fields

Yes

No (Global only)

Split horizontal & vertical windows

Yes

No

Search fields for text

Yes

No

Database forms

Auto creation of data entry forms

Yes

Yes

Add text to forms

No

Yes

Print selected records in form format

Manually

Yes

Save & name multiple forms

No

Yes

Database Report

Name & save reports

Yes

Yes

Preview reports on screen

No

Yes

Break fields

Numberic only

Yes

Statistical functions (Count. Average, etc.)

No

Yes

Report set-up follows Mac interlace

Yes

No

Visible right margin

Yes

No

Change fonts/size

No

Yes (Global only)

Bold/underline selected fields

Yes

No (Global only)

Spreadsheet

Split horizontal & vertical windows

Yes

No

Visible right & left margins

Yes

No

Bold/underline selected cells

Yes

No

Font size/change

No

Yes (Global only)

Print row & column numbers

Yes

Yes

Cell/range names

No

Yes

Total functions

54

90

Graphics

Number of chart types

5

10

Data for chart selection

Type in cell range

Point & click

Use arrows for pointers

No

Yes

Communications

Auto dial

Yes

Yes

Auto log-on

No

No

Macros

No

No

Terminal emulation

No

Yes

Direct download to document

No

Yes

Scrolling window

No

Yes

MacBinary

Yes

No

Xmodem

Yes

Yes

Background Operation

Yes

No

and the ability to download directly
to a document. It also supports
Xmodem but not MacB inary proto¬
cols. Communications is the one
area where some form of automation
(macros) would have been most
valuable.

Works does provide for the Mac-
Binary protocol but does nor allow
scrolling or the ability to download
directly into one of the Works mod¬
ules. One nice feature of the Works
communications module is that you
can work on another document
while sending or receiving files in
the background.

PACKING UP AND MOVING ON

Both jazz and Works are worth¬
while programs that offer the Mac
user a variety of ways to work with
many types of information. Which is
best? If your needs arc primarily
word processing, then Works should
be your choice. If a powerful, flexi¬
ble data base with sophisticated re¬
port generation is what you need,
then jazz is for you. Spreadsheet
users should choose jazz if Lotus 1-
2-3 compatibility is important, or
Works if they plan to share their data
with Excel.

On the whole, Jazz is a more
robust program. It has much more
power than Works but the tradeoff is
that Jazz is much more cumbersome
to use. Works provides an excellent
introduction to productivity a la
Macintosh with a package that may
not have r t he power of Jazz, bur is a
lot easier to use and more pleasant to
work with. ^

JASON GERVICH IS AN EMPLOYEE OF AP¬
PLE AND A FREELANCE WRITER,

JAZZ

Overall Rating

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■ ■ ■ ■ □

List Price: S395. Published by Lotus Devel¬
opment Corp., 55 Cambridge Parkway,
Cambridge. MA 02142. (617) 577-8500.
Version 1A reviewed. Copy protected.

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Overall Rating ■ ■ ■ ■ □

List Price: S295. Published by Microsoft,
16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 98052-
6399. (206) 828-8080. Not copy protected.

16 M A C U S E R DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

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the first truly first-class electronic m,
software the Appletalk network has
ever seen .

A large claim, admittedly. But not an
idle one,

For one thing, intermail doesn't de¬
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totally in the background on a Mac
you already have, while you work in
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And of course you can transfer files
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EXCEL VS. 1-2-3

BY CRAIG STINSON

MACINTOSH FANATICS HAVH Al ¬
ways believed that theirs is bv far the
best machine. At first the belief was
wholly emotional, firmly held but
unsubstantiated by hard evidence.
Then Microsoft introduced Excel and
they had a reason to believe.

In August of 1986, the Sevbold

Group, at the request of Apple Com¬
puter, performed a detailed compar¬
ative evaluation of Microsoft Excel
and Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2. Does the
resulting report, which runs to about
35,000 words plus rabies and
graphs, offer quantitative proof of
the Mac's superiority? Here is an
abstract of the group's findings.

QUALITY IS JOB 1

The first section of the report
focuses on qualitative issues — pro¬
gram designs, standard features and
ease of use.

The study sees 1-2-3 as an aging
product that has undergone only one
significant revision since its intro¬
duction in 1983, Lotus' method of
improving 1-2-3 over the rears has
been to acquire attractive third-
party products that enhance the
functionality of 1-2-3 , then graft
those products onto the original.
This strategy is summarized in a
recent Lotus ad depicting 1-2-3 in a
large box surrounded bv smaller
boxes marked HAL, Report Writer\
Freelance, etc.

This approach makes sense for
Lotus because it adds functionality
to 1-2-3 without making the in¬
stalled base of two million users
change their habits in anv drastic
way. But it has several obvious draw¬
backs for users: extra modules cost

more money; grafted—on functiona¬
lity requires more effort to learn and
use than functionality designed into
the original product and the Lotus
user interface, a model of elegance in
1983, is primitive bv the standards
of current microcomputer software.

It would be an exaggeration to sav
that Excel, bv itself, provides all the
functionality of 1-2-3 with its full
panoply of add-ons, but Excel does
have a far simpler user interface, a
superior set of graphics tools and a
great many spreadsheet features that
are missing in 1-2-3. The advantages
of Excel over 1-2-3 include the fol¬
lowing:

•fvafs user interface is consistent
with virtually all Macintosh soft¬
ware, so Macintosh users do not
have to Icam a new command lan¬

guage.

•The fact that Excel users select
the area they want to operate on,
then issue a command enables Excel
to bypass one w hole layer of com¬
plexity (the “/Range"‘■■command in
the 1-2-3 command tree):

•Evo7 w arns users if 'rhev are
about to throw a wav or overwrite
unsaved data ( 1-2-3 does not).

•Formulas in Excel worksheets
can reference cells in other work¬
sheets.

+ Excel users can create macros “bv
example" (in a keystroke recording
mode) instead of having to type
them in bv hand,

+ Excel macros are stored indepen¬
dently of the worksheets in which
they are used, thus a single macro
can be used in many different con¬
texts.

+ Excel allows user-defined func¬
tions and user-defined display for¬
mats.

* Excel allows users to paste func¬
tion names and range names from
menus into formulas, so they don’t
have to remember syntax rules,

% Excel allows operations on ar¬
rays. Ibis means that users can create
results in many cells by means of a
single formula, or produce a result
from one formula that w ould require
the use of many formulas in 1-2-3.

•In many different wavs. Excel
reduces the number of necessary key¬
strokes (and/or mouse actions) re¬
quired by anticipating user needs.

1SMACUSER DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

MICROSOFT EXCEL I LOTUS 1-2-3 RELEASE 2

Mac Plus 512K Mac XT XT w/8087 AT AT w/80287

Addition

900 cells

2.3

2.4

9,6

6.8

3.6

2.9

3000 cells

4.5

4.6

15,3

10.7

5.6

4.4

5400 cells

7

7.2

22.6

15 2

7.8

6.1

Multiplication

900 cells

2.6

2.8

9.7

6.8

3.6

2.9

3000 cells

5,2

5.4

15.3

10.9

5,6

4.5

5400 cells

8,1

13.6

21 8

15.6

7,7

6.2

Exponentiation

900 cells

17.8

18.2

55.2

7.7

19.1

3.6

3000 cells

57.4

58.1

170.5

13,9

58

6.8

5400 cells

102.3

110.4

301.7

21

102,3

10.5

For example, if the Excel user makes
a cell entry that looks like a date
(such as 8/10/87), Excel assumes it is
a date and formats it accordingly.

% Excel offers a large array of fea¬
tures for customizing graphs.
Graphs, moreover, are generally easi¬
er to create in Excel than in 1-2-3
(although 1-2-3 is easier to use than
Excel in certain situations), and Excel
graphs can be printed directly from
Excel (the 1-2-3 user has to call a
separate program to print graphs
created in 1-2-3).

1-2-3 does, however, have some
qualitative advantages over Excel.
Among them are the following:

• /-2-5 can print and plot graphs
in color. And 1-2-3*s graphing is
easier to use when the data to be
graphed do not lie in contiguous
cells.

•Navigation to the beginning and
ending cells of blocks of data is easier
in 1-2-3 than Excel.

•Scrolling that involves both lat¬
eral and vertical movement is gener¬
ally easier in 1-2-3 than in Excel.

• / -2-3, on a standard IBM PC
screen, displays more data than Ex¬
cel T in default mode, on a standard
Macintosh screen.

• 1-2-3 allows password protec¬
tion of user tiles.

Functions available in 1-2-3 but
not in Excel include three deprecia¬
tion functions, functions for per¬
forming matrix inversion and multi¬
plication and a number of functions
for manipulating text.

Functions available in Excel bur
not in 1-2-3 include functions for
performing exponential regression
analysis and projection, improved
date and time functions (that can
distinguish weekdays from week¬
ends, for example) and more versa-
tile cash flow functions,

YOUR NUMBER IS UP

The second section of the Seybold
study looks at quantitative issues of
power and speed. We rested Excel on
a 512K Macintosh and a Macintosh
Plus. 1-2-3 w as tested in four config¬
urations: on an XT with and without
a floating point 8087 coprocessor
and on a 6 MHz AT with and
without an 80287 coprocessor.

We performed brute force recalcu¬

lation tests (tests in which each cell
of a worksheet references an adjacent
cell with the same kind of mathemat¬
ical operation) on spreadsheets of
various sizes. Our results, summa¬
rized in Figure 1, show ed Excel to be
faster than 1-2-3 on an XT, with or

E xcel proved to be
slower than 1-2-
3 at reformatting
data, slightly guicker
than 1-2-3 (on an XT) at
clearing data, and
slower than 1-2-3 at
copying data.

without the math coprocessor, and
comparable in speed to a 6-MHz
AT,

We also ran timing tests for a
number of rvpical spreadsheet ma¬
nipulations that do not involve recal¬
culation. Excel proved to be slower
than 1-2-3 at reformatting data,
slightlv quicker than 1-2-3 (on an
XT) at clearing data, and slow er than
1-2-3 at copy ing data. Sorting tests
yielded the following results:

•With date fields. Excel per¬

formed quicker than 1-2-3 on an XT
and at a comparable rate to 1-2-3 on
an AT.

•With real number fields. Excel
was slightly faster than 1-2-3 on an
XT but only about half as fast as the
AT version.

•With text fields. Excel sorted
almost foui' times faster than 1-2-3
on an AT and more than nine times
faster than 1-2-3 on an XT.

SUMMING UP

On the basis of our benchmark
tests, we would say that performance
issues alone are not necessarily the
best basis for preferring one pro¬
gram over the other. On the whole.
Excel competes well with 1-2-3, but
docs not overwhelm it. Where Excel
excels is on the qualitative side of
things — the factors that cannot be
assessed with a stopw atch, but which
contribute so much to the overall
utility of a program. And in this
department, Excel makes 1-2-3 look
rather pale.

The results of the study might not
he enough to convert 1-2-3% two
million users to Excel on Macintosh,
but thev provide further proof that
the faith of Macintosh fanatics is
well-placed.

For information about the avail¬
ability' of the full study, contact The
Seybold Group, (213)' 320-9151. ^

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22MACUSER DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

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DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

I HAD JUST GOTTEN A CALL FROM
the 55th customer this week to order
a bottle of artichoke shampoo and
the stock was getting low. I could
tell because the cardboard box that
held our current supply was collaps¬
ing under the weight of the Laser¬
Writer. I knew Fd never have
enough to go around and I hadn't
yet placed an order for more.

I considered the prospect of sit¬
ting at the Macintosh all night print¬
ing apologies for holding up our
customers 1 orders. Our company,
Kissiiv Makeup, used MacWnte for
most of our paperwork but we kept
our client list in a fairly simple file
manager. I would have to look up
every one of the 55 names and
addresses, and tv pc them into the
computer or Cut and Paste, since my
file management program wasn't
really set up to do mail merge* My
head ached at the thought,

Sound familiar? If your firm’s op¬
erations are similarly disheveled,
maybe your data base needs a make¬
over. Kissin' Makeup is a fictitious
business that will help demonstrate
how your data base applications can
go from plain to pretty in a flash,

APPLYING A GOOD FOUNDATION

Most companies need to collect
and store information about custom¬
ers and orders. They also require
attractive form letters and invoices.
Rut there are few products that can
do both well. One solution is a
combination of two powerful data
base programs: Reflex for the Macin-
tosh from Borland International for
data storage and FileMaker Plus from
Forethought for graphic output.

REFLEX ACTION

This application consists of four
related data base files: Customers,
Orders, Items, and Inventory. Begin
by defining your data base files as
shown in Figure 1.

Notice that one or more of the
fields in each data base are under¬
lined. Underlined fields are key
fields. The data in the file will be
sorted using the key fields. To mark
a key field, select it then
KEY FIELD from the Describe menu.

Once you've identified the keys
for each data base, it’s time to tell

Reflex how the data bases are interre¬
lated. Linking data base tiles in Re¬
flex is as simple as drawing a line
between the linked fields. Once vou
have told Reflex that a field is a link
to anot her data base, the name of the
field will be in boldface. Connect
the fields in each data base as shown
in Figure 1.

That completes the data base de¬
sign. Now ifs time to enter data.
Double click on the name of the
Customers data base. Reflex will dis¬
play a data entry screen. You can
redesign the screen later by selecting
FORM LAYOUT from the Data Base
menu, but for now the default layout
will do just fine. You enter data as
vou would in anv Macintosh applica¬
tion. Simply tvpe in the data, then

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has several fea¬
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press Tab to move to the next field.

When vou reach the Orders field,
stop (Figure 2). If you try to enter
anv data here. Reflex will tell you
that you can't. That's because these
are linked fields — they only display
data from the linked Orders data
base. You must enter the data about
the order directly into the Orders
data base itself.

Open the Orders data base, create
a new record and begin entering
data. When vou get to the Items
field, stop again. Items must be
entered as new records in the Items
data base file — one record for each
item ordered.

Make sure you enter information

about each of the items you stock in
the Inventory' data base before you
begin to enter Orders in earnest* The
Orders and Items data base depend
on the Inventory^ data base for infor¬
mation about the items ordered.

Although it may seem a little un¬
gainly at first to have to enter order
data into two different data bases,
you'll soon get used to it, and the
advantages of keeping the data sepa¬
rate w ill quickly become apparent. If
necessary, its possible to automate
the process of data entry by using a
key be > a rd m acre > prog ra m like? empo.

ADDING A LITTLE COLOR

Once you’ve got vour data base set
up, and the data entered into it,
you'll find you can*generate a broad
variety of reports. Reflex is very' capa¬
ble when it comes to combining data
from a number of different data
bases into a single report. It’s also
very good at performing calculations
thanks to its large number of spread¬
sheet-like math functions.

You can use Reflex to create an
invoice composed of data extracted
from the Customer, Orders, Items
and Inventory' data bases. It can also
calculate the invoice total and appli¬
cable taxes automatically.

To design the report select the
NEW REPORT... command from the
File menu. Reflex can display two
different kinds of reports. The sim¬
plest kind is the table-style report -—
for these Reflex will do most of the
design work for you, but naturally
the table report is a little less flexible
than a report you design yourself, so
press the Report You Design Your¬
self button. Reflex will open a blank
report w indow. At the top of the
w indow' are tw o text boxes. The box
on the left displays the current report
field name (Reflex starts with default
names from fl to fn, but you can
change the names.) The text box on
the right is where vouTl enter an
expression that tells Reflex what to
put in the report field.

Begin designing the Report tem¬
plate by drawing a box in the report
window'. Type the text "Account #”
and hit Return. You’ve created a
label field. This field is constant from
record to record. If you w f ant to
make the label more pleasing to the

DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY MACU5ER23

NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY BASE

eye, you can change its font or stvk.
You can even paste a picture into a
label field — handy for putting the
company's logo on the invoices. La-
bcl fields can be dragged around and
resized, as can data fields.

To create a data field, draw anoth¬
er box with your mouse. This time,
instead of typing in some text, go to
the Describe menu and select TEXT.
Now type the expression “Acct-
Number of Customer” in the expres¬
sion box at the top of the report
form layout. This tells Reflex to place
the value in the AcctNumber field
from the Customer data base into
this data field when it generates the
report. Continue to lay out the re¬
port form as shown in Figure 3,
This report will be a repeating
collection. That is, the design you
create will be repeated for each re¬
cord that matches the selection crite¬
rion. To indicate that this is a repeat¬
ing collection, draw a big box
around the Account Number, Order
Date, Order Number, and Name
and Address of Customer fields, then
select REPEATING COLLECTION from

the Describe menu. Reflex will draw
a gray outline around the items.
Now you must tell Reflex where to
get the data for the repeating collec¬
tion. Select the gray repeating collec¬
tion box and type “Orders WHERE
DateOrdered = TODAY” in the
expression box.

You’ve told Reflex to include only
those Orders records whose DatcOr-
dered equals today’s date. That’s be¬
cause vou only want to print the
invoices that were entered today.
The expression you’ve entered is the
selection criterion for the repeating
collection you’ve just defined.

You’ll need to define a second
repeating collection inside the first to
show the variable number of items
that belong to each invoice. This
collection will contain three fields
from the Inventory data base (item-
Number, description, and unitCost),
one field from the Items data base
(count), and one calculated field
(Total). The Total is derived by
multiplying the item’s cost times the
count.

Finally, there are three calculated

fields in the invoice; SubTotal, Tax
and Total. The calculation for the
Tax field is a good demonstration of
Reflex ’s sophistication. Naturally,
only customers from California
should be charged the 6% sales tax.
The Reflex string function STARTS
comes in handy here, STARTS( Cus¬
tomer’s State, U CA”) will return
TRUE if the customer is from Cali¬
fornia, FALSE if not. The IF func¬
tion returns ,06 * fSubTotal if the
customer is from California, 0 if not.

Once you’ve defined vour report
form, save it with a % S. Now it
can be called up from disk anv time
and you only need to type ^ - to
generate the report (Figure 4). After
Reflex creates the report vou can
print it, or export the data for use
with another program,

MIX AND MATCH

That’s where FileMaker Plus
comes in. FileMaker Plus is great for
sprucing up your invoices and add¬
ing that professional look to your
reports. Here, you’ll be using it uj
create custom mailing labels for Kis-
sin’ Makeup.

Before you can do so, though,
you’ll have to get the data out of
Reflex and into FileMaker Plus. Nei¬
ther program can read the other’s file
format, but both data bases are capa¬
ble of reading and writing plain text
versions of their data.

To export data from Reflex’s In¬
voice report you must select the
border of the outer repeating collec¬
tion in the report. Choose the EX¬
PORT DATA... command from the
Report menu. Reflex gives you tour
choices: Clipboard, Text File, Mail
Merge and Custom Text File. Pick
“Text File” for FileMaker Plus.

After you press the Text File but¬
ton, Reflex will display all the fields
in the selected repeating collection.
Select the ones vou want to export
— in this case the fields that corre¬
spond to the Fide, EirstName, Last-
Name, Address, City, State and Zip
of the Customer data base. That’s
the data FileMaker will need to print
custom mailing labels. Once you
dick OK, Reflex will save the data to
a text file on disk.

The next step in the file transfer
procedure is to create a FileMaker

# file Edll Formal Describe Oueruleiu UJIndoiu

3 :

AC ct Number

Title
First Name
LaslName
Address
Stele
ZIP
City

Telephone

Orders

I DataBase Oueruletu I

p:

Orders

prftrNymber

Customer

DateOrdered
DateShipped
Items

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in

jCo

Order

Inventur u

Count

[j^ Invent ary

ItemK umber

Description
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Shipping weight
AmountOnHand
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Fig 1: Designing the data
base in Reflex. Reflex is
a relational data base,
it's specially designed to
handle multiple,
interconnected data
bases. Lines connecting
the four data base tiles
show how they are
related.

a

4 File Edit formal Describe Database Search Mist Window

OnJerNumber

Recount » [IQ 14

Title
First Name
Last Name
Address

City

Telephone

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Little Italy

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Fig 2: The Customers
data entry form in Reflex.
The order link field is
highlighted, if you try to
enter data here, Reflex
will stop you. The order
field is for display only
— new orders must he
entered into the Orders
data base.

24 MAC US ER DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY

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Fig 3: This \s (he Invoice
Report Design template.
The expression for each
field name has been
superimposed over the
field so that you can see
how each field is
derived. Fields may also
be given names, which
can then be used in
expressions. For
instance, the SubTotal
field’s name isfSoblotal
It is used by name in the
Tax and Total
calculations.

4 File EOn Format Describe Report Fonts Style Window I

Recount

1013

Order

1004

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[Sobtoy

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Total

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Fig 4: Part oMhe Invoice
Report. Pressing MM =
causes Reflex to
calculate the report. Data
shown here can be printed
or exported.

Plus data base to hold the data.
When you first run FileMaker Plus it
will ask you for the name of a file to
create* Type in "Mailing Labels.”
FileMaker Plus will then display its
Field Definition dialog. Design the
data base to match the fields Reflex
exported: Title, First Name, Last-
Name, Address, City, State and Zip.
Add one more field to this list, call it
Logo and tell FileMaker Plus it's a
picture field. FileMaker Plus will
store picture data as well as text*
Now select Exit* FileMaker will dis¬
play its default data entry form.

Now to import the data you ex¬
ported from Reflex. Select the INPUT
FROM., command from the File
Menu. FUeMakcrPlus will offer vou a
choice of fields to import the data
into. Press the "Move All” and “In¬
put” buttons. FileMaker will read in
the Reflex file and store the data in
the Mailing Labels data base. All
that’s missing is the logo.

Copy the logo onto the Clipboard
from any graphic program like Mac-
Draw , MacPaint , or FullPaint. Once
it’s on the Clipboard, paste it into

the Logo field of die first record* If
it looks scrunched, don't worry. You
can resize its field later in Layout
mode.

To copy the graphic into the Logo
field of all the records, select Replace
from the Edit menu. FileMaker Plus
w ill ask you if you want to paste the
picture into all the records. Choose
“Replace.” Now you’ve got a com¬
plete mailing label data base ready to

go-

The final step is to prepare a
mailing label layout for printing.
Choose the Layout command from
the Select menu. You’re in FileMaker
Plus' layout mode* FileMaker Plus
allows multiple layouts within a sin¬
gle data base. Select DUPLICATE LAY¬
OUT from the Edit menu to create a
new layout form. Rearrange the
fields until they look the way you
want them. Make sure to position
the logo to get the most benefit
from it, and don’t forget to erase the
field labels — you won’t need them
on a mailing label.

FileMaker Plus has several features
that make it especially well suited for

printing mailing labels. You've al¬
ready seen how easy it is to incorpo¬
rate graphics into a report. Another
handy feature is the ability to specify
exactly what size your labels are.
FileMaker can accommodate any la¬
bel size at all.

Select the SET PAPER SIZE com¬
mand from the Apple Menu. The
Paper Size dialog lets you set your
label size permanently. The Gadgets
menu has a Label Setup command
that lets you specify how many labels
across to print. There’s also a Slide
Objects command that will slide
your name and address to the left to
eliminate any extra spaces.

Once you've set your labels up to
your liking, print away* FileMaker
Plus supports both the Image Writer
and the LaserWriter.

The next time through you can
speed things up with FileMaker* s
script command. Once you've in¬
stalled a mailing label script it only
takes a keystroke to produce custom¬
ized labels that would make Publish¬
er's Clearing House green with envy.

THE FINAL TOUCH

This simple application has only
scratched the surface of these two
powerful programs, but you can no
doubt already see that using Reflex
and FileMaker Plus together gives
your Mac the brains, beauty and
brawn to perform most any business
task, ^

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HINTS&TIPS

compiled by Michael /), Wesley

Many of you have called or
written in response to the
article “You Can Take It With
You" (Madjser, August 1 2 3 4 5 * 7 86).
Some of you needed help get¬
ting the connection to work
the way it was described, but
more of you were in need of a
piece of information* Figure
2 to be exact* that was left out
of the article by my mistake. I
apologize for taking so long
to correct the error* hut I
learned after the article was
printed that the Tandy 200
actually has a pin configura-
tion different from that de¬
scribed in its manual This
rendered the missing Figure 2
inoperative, and 1 have been
tracking dow n a correction so
that l could pass it along and
get everyone out there up and
running.

Since there was so much
interest in the subject, we
decided to put together a col¬
lection of Hints and Tips re¬
lating to the Tantlv Models
100*102, and the 200.

of the Mae Plus, the 512K
Enhanced and the Image-
Writer Ik this is no longer the
case. Check with your com¬
puter dealer, however, be¬
cause there arc third party
companies that continue to
manufacture this cable. If you
are unable to find the correct
cable* von can purchase one
from Software for Less* 950
Taraval St., San Francisco,
CA 94110, (415) 753-1066,

MAC PLUS TO TANDY

If you have a Mac
Plus, the easiest so¬
lution, albeit not the
most elegant one, is to get a
Mac to IinageWriter I cable
and a DB-9 to Mini-8 adapter
cable that will connect prop¬
erly to the modem or printer
port on a Mac Plus. These
adapters should be readily
available at most dealers. The
more elegant solution is to
find someone who carries or
can make a “Mac Plus to
ImagcWritcr I" cable.

TANDY 100 AND 102

Since the article was
written* Tandy has
replaced the 100
with a new' model* the 102.
The 102 has an improved

keyboard* a slimmer profile,
an improved screen and more
standard memory. It weighs
about half a pound less. Inter¬
nally the two machines are
identical If you have a Model
102* simply follow' the in¬
structions in the article. The
process of transferring files
from the Macintosh to a

Model 102 is exactly the same
as that described for the Mod¬
el 100.

GB

FINDING THE RIGHT CABLE

, The article suggests
- that you use an

Image Writer I cable
for the connection between
the Model 100 and the Mac.
At the time, this cable was
readily available to most us¬
ers* hut with the introduction

SOFTWARE PROBLEMS

In the article I sug¬
gested using Red
Ryder as the termi¬
nal program for the Mae, hut
I recommended using a set¬
ting that is not present in all
of the program's versions.
What you want to do is find a
setting roughly equivalent to
“save incoming data as ASCII
text." This setting may vary
from version to version of
Red Ryder.

If you are using
MneTcnuinal, you
will have a problem
with carriage returns. The file
should transmit from the
Tandy to the Mac with no
trouble, but it will come in a
continuous string of charac¬
ters with no line feeds at
carriage returns. To send car¬
riage returns from the Tandy
you must quit TELECOM
and enter BASIC from the
Main menu. Then type the

Up

JUL

following: POKE 63066*1
Press Enter, then exit BA¬
SIC and return to TELE¬
COM. From that point, fol¬
low the procedure outlined
tor the file transfer.

With Smmte&m II,
use these settings:

1) Select DIRECT
CONNECT from the Connec¬
tion menu.

2) Select SPEED and FOR¬
MAT from the Settings menu.
Set the baud rate at 19200*
choose seven bits per charac¬
ter with one stop bit* and
select None for parin'.

3) Select TERMINAL from
the Settings menu. Check the
options Send Linefeed after
Carriage Return and Gener¬
ate X/On, X/Offflow control.

4) Select FILE TRANSFER
PROTOCOL from the Settings
menu. Choose XMODEM
Data Only.

5) Select the save to disk
icon and name the file,

6} Press the ST AT command
in the Tandy’s TELECOM
program and enter 971 IE.
Then select TERM.

7) Select UPLOAD on the
Tandy and transfer the file.

Tin

m

IT STILL WON’T WORK

If you have the cable
connected to the
printer port on the

m

Mac, try moving the cable to
the modem port instead.
Make sure you change the
setting in your program so
that the Mac knows which
port is connected.

E)

Make sure that your
settings are correct*
and that settings on
both machines are the same.
The article suggests transmit¬
ting 7 bits with 1 stop bit and
ignoring parity. If this does
not work, trv changing
the settings on BOTH ma¬
chines. Set the Tandy at
88N1E* and Red Ryder to 8
hits, with 1 stop bit and No

Parity,

TANDY 200

| [ fa | At long last, the in-
lU&tt-iSil formation many of
you have been wait¬
ing for — how to make the
Tandy 200 work with the
Mae, For some unexplained
reason, the Tandy Model 200
requires an extra signal that is
not used in the Model 100 or
102, It is because of this extra
signal that an ImagcWritcr I
cable* modified or unmodi¬
fied, will not work with the
200. You must have special
cable with the following pin
configuration:

Mac End

TANDY 200 End

Male DB-9

Male DB-25

PIN 1 •*—-

—-—► PIN }

PIN 5 —

-► PIN 7

PINS +• -

-► PIN 3

PIN 7

PIN? -4-

-—► PIN 2

On the TANDY end (DB-25 end! ONLY

JUMP p.ns 4,5,6 and 6

Moc end TANDY end

* = PIN ACTIVE . = NO PIN

We wish to offer many
thanks to the people at ESM
cable in North Carolina for
figuring out the correct con¬
figuration and sharing it with
us. The company now lists
the Mac to Tandy 200 cable
in its catalog. While ESM
does not sell directly to indi¬
viduals * the cable can be or¬
dered from Software for Less,
950 Taraval St., San Francis¬
co, CA 94116* (415) 753-
1066.

Once you have the correct
cable* everything else follows
as described in the article.
The settings and file transfer
process arc the same as those
outlined for the Model 100.

This cable will also connect
the Model 200 to a Mac Plus
with the addition of a DB-9
to Mini-8 adapter cable. The
file transfer process is the
same as to a Mae 512.12

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The LaserServer incorporates a slot
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Business File vision. Tefos Software. 3420
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dBase Mac Ashton Tate. 20101 Hamilton
Ave , Torrance, CA 90502, (213) 538-7000.
$495. (Publisher promises product available by
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dMaclll, Format Software, 11770 Bernardo
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File, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond.
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FileMaker Plus, Forethought, Inc,, 250 So-
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Helix, Qdesta, 4084 Commercial Blvd., North¬
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Mac&ase, Eqtron Corp., 330 Bay St,, Suite
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Omnis3. Blyth Software, 2929 Campus Dr.,
Suite 425, San Mateo, CA 94403, (415) 571-
0222. $495.

OverVUE. ProVUE, 222 22nd St., Huntington
Beach, CA 92648, (714) 969-2431. $295,

Reflex for the Mac. Borland International,
4585 Scotts Valley Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066,
(408) 438-8400. $99.95.

WORD PROCESSORS

Document Compare The Model Office Co.,
49 Wellington St. East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Document Modeler. The Model Office Co.,
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M5E 1C9, (800) 268-8181. $299.

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Decision Map, SoftStyle, 7192 Kalanianote
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MacProject. Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani
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MacSpec, LM Software, PO Box 93, Belmont,
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MaxThink. MaxThink, 230 Crocker Ave., Pied¬
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MicroPlanner Plus, MicroPlanning Software
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94104, (415) 788-3324. $395.

MORE. Living Videotext, 2432 Charleston Rd.,
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$295.

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SPELLING CHECKERS

Liberty Spell Checker. DataPak, 14011
Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, (818)
905-6419. $59.95.

MacLightning Target Software, 14206 SW
136th St., Miami, FL 33186. 1-800-622-5483.
$99.95.

Spellswell. Greene, Johnson, 15 Via Chualar,
Monterey, CA 93940 (408) 375-2828 $59.95.

Thunder!, Batteries Included, 30 Mural St.,
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada L4B 1B5, (416)
881-9316. $49.95

SPREADSHEETS

Excel, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Red¬
mond, WA 98052-6399, (206) 882-8080 $395.

MacCalc. Bravo Technologies, c/oDPAS, PO
Box T, Gilroy, CA 95021-2249, (800) 345-2888.
$99.95,

Multiplan, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way,
Redmond, WA 98052-6399, (206) S82-BG8Q.
$195.

BUSINESS GRAPHICS

Chart, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Red¬
mond, WA 98052-6399, (206) 882-8080. $125.

Cricket Graph, Cricket Software, 3508 Market
St,, Philadelphia, PA 19104, (800) 345-8112.
$195.

INTEGRATED SOFTWARE

Jazz, Lotus Development Corp., 55 Cambridge
Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02142, (617) 577-
8500. $395.

Works, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Red¬
mond, WA 98052-6399, (206) 882-8080. $295,

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You can get in, but can you get out?
Dungeons of Doom takes shareware to new
depths...er, heights.

IT MAY RE JUST ANOTHER DAY
for you, but I'll be spending most of
the evening escaping skeleton war¬
riors and being attacked by a flying
blob called the Black Pudding.

What’s more, instead of the usual
mild-mannered me, HI be the fero¬
cious fighter Son of Krucl Dave, out
on a quest for the Orb of Carnos.
Without it. I'm going to be stuck
forever in a monster-ridden 40-
level subterranean dungeon ruthless¬
ly ruled by the Dark Wizard.

You're right, I've flipped. I'm ad¬
dicted to one of the most popular
and perhaps most misunderstood ad¬
venture games in Mac historvi John
Raymonds' shareware classic. Dun¬
geon of Doom,

Dungeon of Doom (or 1) ofD , as it’s
often called) is not a new game, nor
is it a new concept. Ir has many
similarities to the Ultima- type fanta¬
sy role-playing games where the
player assumes a persona — com¬
plete with certain predefined charac¬
teristics that affect the play — and
then goes off on a quest into unex¬
plored and dangerous terrain. The
similarity is more than mere coinci¬
dence. Raymond was inspired to
write the game by two things: an
excuse to teach himself C, and his
disappointment with the Mac ver¬
sion of Ultima II.

Upon starting up the application,

i I I i BY DAVE

you are greeted with an ominous
digitized picture of a claustrophobic
passage blocked by an ax-wielding
demon, Backed into a corner is a
stalwart little fellow with short
sword and shield, ready to defend
himself. That fellow is you, and the
picture nicely epitomizes the essence
of play: kill or be killed.

After a mouse click, the start-up
screen goes away and you can select
NEW GAME front the File menu. You
know that danger's afoot; your cur¬
sor has changed to a sword.

PICKING YOUR PERSONALITY

Before play begins, you must se¬
lect your “class' 1 , that is, the particu¬
lar type of character you want to be.
Selecting different classes (knight,
fighter, sage, etc.) changes the char¬
acter's attributes or traits (strength,
intelligence, wisdom, etc.). Almost
even r class has its own strong point.
For example, wizards have wisdom
of 20 and strength of 11, but a
fighter has a strength of 18 and
wisdom of only 8, Similarly, the
jeweler's forte is dexterity; the
knight's is constitution; and for the
sage, it's intelligence. For Jones,
however, there's no special category
of greatness. Deciding to enter the
dungeon as a plain Jones means you
will be going in with fair-to-middlin'
characteristics, in the 14 and 15

range (top is 25). For the first-time
out explorer with no idea of which
traits are most needed at the onset,
Jones is probably the safest bet. All
the traits can be augmented (and a
few can go down) in the course of
the play.

After typing in an appropriately
adventuresome name, you're in the
dungeon. Click around the character
icon to move a few squares. You
should be right next to the stairs.
Can you escape up the stairs per¬
haps? No, a polite and slightly omi¬
nous message reads, “A force pre¬
vents you from escaping to the
surface. Maybe the Orb will set you
free.” So you have to find that Orb
before you can get out. It's time to
start taking stock of your surround¬
ings and your possessions.

TAKING INVENTORY

First thing to do is to check out
what items you have on von. The
best way to do that is choose DROP
from the Inventory menu. Better yet,
just type D. (Shortcut commands in
D ofD do not have to be typed with
the Command key.) Depending on
what class of character you are, you'll
find various assortments of food,
weapons, armor, potions, scrolls,
wands, and rings. Take note of inter¬
esting inventory items and then can¬
cel this window. Using the com¬
ma nds in the Use menu or their
shortcut equivalents, put on the ar¬
mor and pick up the weapon you
found in your inventory. Now
you're ready.

Even though there are keyboard
commands for moving your charac¬
ter around, 1 find the mouse works
better and faster: Just keep the but¬
ton depressed in the direction you
want to move. You can control the
game speed bv typing a number on
the keyboard from 1 (very fast) to 0
(very slow). And don't ever leave the
game unattended. Even in the ab¬
sence of keyboard input, the game
inexorably progresses. Stepping out
for a cheese sandwich without using
the Pause command means you
might come back to find your hero
either surrounded bv monsters or
already quite dead. (On the other
hand, leaving the game ""paused” for
a couple of minutes rewards you

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The graphic resolution in D ofD is
really good. Because the game is a
Mac original and wasn’t translated
from some other low-res computer,
the images are sharp and artistic. But
to players spoiled bv state-of-
the-art digitized graphics, realistic
sound, and lots of animation, D ofD
might look pretrv static and stodgy.
There is some animation, like when
you zap a wand or throw something,
and there are sound effects for move¬
ment and fighting, but nothing to
match the animation of Uninvited or
the sound of Enchanted Scepters. On
the other hand, the look and sound
are still far above such bestsellers as
Ultima or Xyphns.

THINGS ARE PICKING UP

The floor of the dungeon is lit¬
tered with items, useful and other¬
wise, To pick up something you
need only pass over it. In this way,
you can pick up scrolls, rings, food,
weapons, armor, loot, and things to
throw (including a Mac Plus). When
you pick them up, vour message
window announces what ir is. But
neophytes in the dungeon won’t
know the true identities or uses of
some objects. Fur example, a potion
might simply be called a Swirly Po¬
tion or a Yellow Potion; a ring
might be a Jade Ring, Some charac¬
ters are better at guessing the identi¬
ties of certain objects than other
classes, but the only wav to be
certain is to use them (drink a po¬
tion, read a scroll, or wear a ring),

A large pan: of the game is getting
to know what the cryptic objects are
and what they do. Needless to sav,
not all the things you find will be
good for you. Beware of the Poison
potion and the Amnesia scroll, for
example. And Pm not especially keen
on the Hunger ring, either.

Even weapons and armor can be
bad for you. Usually there is a use
value associated with both weapons
and armor (from -4 to +4, I
think). Chain armor +3 is pretty
good, but Gloves -2 might actually
attract blows rather than protect you
from them. A use value for scrolls
and wands indicates how often they
can be used before they crumble.

Part of the fun and also the frus-

N ear the surface
monsters are
pretty easy to
kilt, and near the bot¬
tom they're bloody ter¬
rible (or vice-versa).

(ration with D ofD is that it comes
with a minimum of information and
instructions. There are hints in the
Help menu, but they're obscure
enough to be of little or no use to
the beginner. The result is that the
new player has a bewildering num¬
ber of unknowns before him with
little to fall back on. You just have to
keep trying everything out and see¬
ing what works and what doesn’t.
Unfortunately, this has led a lot of D
of D questers to give it up.

This lack of guidance is deliberate.

JANUARY 1987 MACUSER119

SHARING THE DUNGEON

Raymonds considered it part of the
quest to figure out, for example,
what a Digging Wand did and what
a Life Potion was* I have to admit,
however, that I was put off by this at
first. It just seemed too much to
expect from the onset. Whether you
will Find this too maddening de¬
pends on your disposition, your ex-
perience with other adventure
games, and your method of play.

One of the best things about D of
D is that every game is different* The
program is written so that each dun-

S tepping out for a
sandwich without
using the Pause
command means you
might come back to find
your hero already dead.

geon-level maze is created random¬
ly; so no two arc ever alike. Like¬
wise, the object names (Kalebunga
Scroll, Hot Pink Potion, etc.) are
assigned randomly at the start of
each new game. This means that you
can always start an entirely new
game. Players who spent S60 on a
game like Deja Vu } loved it, won it,
and now feel cheated that you can't
go back and play again, will appreci¬
ate this aspect. I have played D of D
dozens of times {I’ve won about
five), and it’s always challenging.

MEET THE MONSTERS

Killing monsters is what it’s all
about in working your way down all
40 dungeon levels — and back up all
40, too. One thing that sets D of D
apart from the pack, in my opinion,
is the quality of its monsters. There’s
a stunning selection of 42 different
creatures, all of them hostile* Near
the surface, they’re pretty easy to kill
(but then, so arc you at that point),
and near the bottom, they Ye bloody
terrible (or vice-versa)* I am proud
to say that I’ve seen all 42 monsters
at this point, but one of them (the
Drackone) IVe seen only once. Inci¬
dentally, the only way to see what
they look like, besides sneaking a
glimpse of the few shown in the
accompanying screen dumps, is to
play the game. Unlike most Mac
games, the creatures are not con¬
tained in ICON resources, so muck¬
ing around with ResEdit will do no
good. The sidebar, however, gives
you an alphabetical list so you can
make sure you haven’t missed any*

Again, there’s a challenge in figur¬
ing how each monster fights and
how to kill them most efficiently. A
few are pretty obvious* The Fire
Lizard is hit especially hard by the
Ice Wand, for example. But how do
you fight back when “you feel
drained” by the Vampire? Several
monsters not ontv hit w ith their bare
hands (hooves, paws or Whatever),
but also pack a wallop with blasts of
fire, ice or electricity. Shields seem
good protection against those,
though they also waste a hand that
could be wielding a weapon.

As you travel deeper down the
cob web bed stairs, keep a sharp eye
on the hit-point bar and your food

fT| 0 Edit r urntml iTTr I n [* ant cm Kelp

The first thing you see
inDungeo/r of Doom is
this sturdy little fellow
cornered by an ax-
wietding maniac, it's
prophetic.

As you can see, the Use
menu gives you plenty of
things to do during play
— not that it always
helps. Note the crowd on
the board. Avoid the
animate objects,
whenever possible; pick
up the inanimate ones.
Simple, right?

What seem to be maze
maps, or just tracings of
your own circuitous
progress appear to the
right of the midget
cyclops in the upper
right-hand corner. Who
knows? They might even
help.

120MACUSER JANUARY 1987

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indicator. The first tells you how
many It its you can take before you’re
killed. The second shows how much
energy you have left. There’s a so¬
phisticated interaction among these
two measurements and your attri¬
butes, The more monsters you kill,
the more hits it takes to kill you (this
is what is meant by the maximum hit
points). The stronger you are, the
harder you hit and the more things
you can carry. The higher your con¬
stitution, the slower your food ener¬
gy is used up. You hit hardest when

B eware of the
Poison potion
and the Amne¬
sia scroll. And I’m not
especially keen on the
Hunger ring, either.

you’re not too full or too hungry.
And so on.

With few instructions and hordes
of horrible monsters intent on killing
you, you will probably find yourself
repeatedly starting over or picking
up from where you last got killed.
But that’s part of the game, as they
say. And if you don’t like it, don’t
pay for it.

Say what?

IT S SHAREWARE!

That’s right, don’t pay for it.
We’re talking shareware here, folks.
D ofD is not sold in stores; it does
not come in a box with a poorly
drawn poster; you will find no ad for
it in this magazine. John Raymonds
(and two friends) created this game
on summer break at MIT. He then
uploaded it to bulletin boards and
information services like Compu¬
Serve, Thousands of people have
downloaded the program with an
untold number getting it directly
from friends and user groups. If they
liked it, they paid Raymonds S25; if
not, they didn’t.

That’s the theory, at anv rate.
There’s no way of ever knowing how
many unscrupulous people are using
and enjoying the game without pay¬
ing, but Raymonds reports that he
has no evidence to refute the current
sad consensus that less than 1 per¬
cent actually send in their money.

THIS BUG S FOR YOU

Because there is no way to control
the flow of public domain or
shareware products, it is important
for the “buyer” to make sure he has
the current version. The latest ver¬
sion, is 4.0 and is HFS compatible.
This version has a couple of bugs,
however, when used with the old
ROMs. Would you believe that I get
a system crash every rime I pull
down the Help or the Apple menu
in the middle of a game! For a first-
time user, this could be an intoler¬
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menu. Version 3 is, therefore, rec¬
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machine,

(continued on page 178)

There are 42 monsters in 0 of 0, It takes a lot of playing to find them all, Here's a
checklist of at! of them, along with some notes.

MONSTER

NOTES

1. Air Devil

2. Ailigog

3. Amadon

4. Balitor

5. Banshee

6. Black Pudding

7. Black Unicom

8. Caveman

9. Centaur

10 Crimean Warrior

11. Dark Wizard

12. Drackone

13. Dragon

14. Drow

15. Electric Penguin

16. Ettin

17. Evil Cleric

18. Evil Necromancer

19. Firboleg

20. Fire Lizard

21. Floor

22. Fomor

23. Freezing Sphere

24. Giant Bat

25. Giant Scorpion

26. Giant Spider

27. fee Whirlwind

28. Lion

29. Lizzog

30. Morrigan

31. Ogrlllon

32. Reaper

33. Schwein Hun

34. Sethron

35. Shambling Mound

36. Skeleton Warrior

37. Succubus

38. Vampire

39. Wandering Eye

40. Witch

41. Zambit

42. Zarmindor

Files and flocks
Can make you confused

A Monty Python reference?
One of the rarest

You name it, he can do it — including climbing stairs
The rarest (I think)

Spits fire

Often leaves behind an Elven Cloak
My favorite, rare, hits with 20,000 volts
Two-headed
Shoots fire

Shoots fire, abundant
Just another pretty tile

Rare

Can poison you

Hits with freezing blast
Often sleeps
A lizard + frog

Named after monster-icon designer John Morgan Jr.

Ogre + gorilfa

Grim

The easiest kill

Can drain you dry

Often leaves behind a potion
Cute, a zapping rabbit
Often leaves behind a weapon

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HARDWARE

Change the color of
your screen from
light blue to soft
green with a sheet of yellow
acetate. These are sold as see-
through report covers in most
office supply stores. Cut it to
fit and tape it over the screen.
Or make it removable bv at¬
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it into the top of vour Mac.
Bob Mcilvradk

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EXCEL, WORD

Open a new' doeu-
g- me nr before open-

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box, make the new document
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with onlv its title bar show¬
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En Johnson

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FULLPAINT

Unlike other pro¬
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Undo function re¬
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even if menus are opened, the
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RIV ERSIDE, CA

SWITCHER

If you want to in¬
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text, vou should introduce a
language such as BASIC or
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Graph as the other applica¬
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puter program can be stored
in the Clipboard and then
switched over to Cricket
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graph can then be modified in
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into a MacWrite document.
Karl E. Lonngren

IOWA CITY, IA

HFS

When formatting a
400K disk to have
HFS, make sure
that the Caps Lock key isn't
depressed. The disk does not
format as H PS if it is,
Gerald Levy

MALIBU, CA

GRAYPAINT

One of GrnyPamfs
limitations is that it
can't work on an en¬
tire page at a time. To work
around this limitation, and
achieve an interesting effect at

the same time, copy a selec¬
tion of the active Gray Paint
window, and save it as a Mac¬
Paint document. The copied
selection will expand to fill
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Paint’s gray scale information
will be transferred with the
image, resulting in a beautiful
smoothing effect.

Peter Sc hug
BRONX, NY

124MACUSER JANUARY 1987

A powerful feature
of GrayPmnt f which
is nor fully ex¬
plained tn its manual, allows
any area to be turned into a
fill pattern. To do this, select
the desired area with the se¬

lection marquee, select de¬
fine FILL PATTERN from the
Edit menu, and holding
down the Shift key, fill an
area with the paint bucket,
Ralph Bailey

LOS ANGELES, CA

MAC3D2.0

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of Mnc3D, send a

newsletter to registered own¬
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program to its fullest. With

their permission, we Ye re¬
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They all apply to version 2.0
of the program.

•To create end marks on
the arcs and curves, attach a
small line to the end of the
arc/curve, and place the end-
mark on that line.

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object down to its edges, du- choose dimension
plicate the edge to be dimen-

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a Save as PICT capability, a
graphic saved as such actually
comes through as a bit¬
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from MncBmw, PageMaker,
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Clipboard: It will retain its
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bevel by I percent.

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MASSAPEQUA, NY

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Startup Haunting

Here's a puzzlement. I have a 512
Macintosh with a Hyper Drive 2(1
Recently, using Copy II Mae , I tried to
install that wild and crazy guy, Racter, on
the hard disk. It didn't work, which
didn’t surprise rue; What did surprise
me, however, is that now the Racter title
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now appears in place of the Hyper Drive
announcement that used to appear every
time the Mac is booted.

There is no trace of a “Racter" file
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awaw Is it possible that Racter has super¬
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Henry Slesar

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(1) When you boot the Macintosh, the
System looks for a file called Startup
Screen in the System folder. If there is such
a file it will briefly display the image
contained in that file before you enter the
Finder.

(2) The Hr per Drive System software pro¬
vides such a file. However, like any file, it
can be made invisible so that you can't
actually see it in any folder or on the
desktop.

E HELP FOLDER

(3) Copy II Mac did pait of its job.
While it didn't successfully manage to in¬
stall all of the Racter files on your hard disk ,
it did manage to not only install but replace
the HypcrDiive Startup Screen file with the
corresponding Stan up Screen file from the
Racter disk. It also rendered it invisible so
you won't sec it physically represented on
your Desktop or in your System folder.

(4) Now when you boot the Macintosh
you'll get the Racter stmt-up art. The
HypcrDiive Startup Screen is probably lost
forever t although you can still find it on
your HyperDnve System software disks.

(5) You can create your own customized
stun-up screens. Using Bill Atkinson's pub¬
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have your Macintosh display any MacPaint
image as the start-up screen. Boot up
ScreenMaker, select DOC TO SCREEN from
the ScreenMaker menusj select the Mac¬
Paint image you wish to use t and save it as
Startup Screen into the System folder r This
will replace old Racter. If you don't want
any start-up sacens you'll have to use a
utility like Res Ed it or Fed it to make the
Racter Startup Screen file visible, Then you
can just toss it m the trash and you won't be
bothered with any unwelcome start-up
guests.

Missing Table

Q ln the September issue of Mac User,
•you explained how to override the
unidirectional print mode of the Image-
Writer, giving a table prepared by Ap¬
ple’s Technical Communications Group.
You neglected to print the table. Would
you please print it?

Clifford Paul Jones

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA

A Yeah...that famous editorial slip-up.
t\w Here's the table:

ImageWriter Motion

In virtually every regard, Apple’s
• ImageWriter II is a remarkable and
most enjoyable printing machine. I de¬
light in its ability to prim rvpc or graph¬
ics. color or black-and-white. When
compared to my daisywheel printer, it
does, however, exhibit one habit that is
most annoying. With the daisywheel
printer, what you see is what you get.
Load paper to a line and that is the line
at which the printer starts printing.
Straightforward and logical.

Not so with the ImageWriter II —
load paper to a line and start praying.
Before it starts printing, it is apt to jump
back four lines, jump ahead six or make
some other unpredictable movement. I
have never been able to figure out in
which direction, or how far, it is going
to move before it prints.

Is there any logic to it? How can I find
the point on a sheet of paper at which
the ImageWriter II will begin a page?
Steven E. Mac intyre
NEW YORK, NY

A The hizaire motion you ascribe to the
mJ mageWnter does indeed have some
logic behind it. Essentially the paper move¬
ment is a software trick to make the l mage -
Writer II act like an ImageWriter T
Here's how Bill Dawson, at Apple customer
relations, explains it:

The reverse paper motion is seen only on
the ImageWriter If with tractor feed pa¬
per. For both models of the ImageWriter,
the correct position for starting tractor feed
paper is with the top edge (or perforation)
under the pinch rollers on the paper bail
On the Image Witter I T this puts the print -
head about half inch from the top edge, but
on the ImageWriter II it puts the printhead
about one inch from the top .

BIDIRECTIONAL PRINTING ON AN IMAGEWRITER

ImageWriter (original) — all Driver Versions, cannot be overridden:

High Bidirectional Always

Standard Unidirectional Always

Draft Bidirectional Always

ImageWriter II — with Driver Version 2.0, cannot be overridden:

High Bidirectional Always

Standard Bidirectional Always

Draft Bidirectional Always

ImageWriter II — with Driver Version 2.1 or 2.2:

High Bidirectional Always

Standard Unidirectional Default

Set bidirectional

JANUARY 1937 M A C U S E R 127

THE HELP FOLDER

The Image Writer software has to make
the I mage Writer 11 seem identical to the old
model , so at the beginning of each printing
job it has to roll the paper backward about a
half inch to put the printhead where it
would be on an Image Writer I. At the end
of the job , the paper is advanced so that the
top edge is once again under the rollers.

Some applications f notably Mac Write
and Word, make every page a separate
printing job , What that means is that
between pages you see the paper advance
until the edge is under the rollers, then roll
back until the printhead is half an inch
from the top to start the next page .

A Reader Replies

In the October issue of MacUser, a

reader asked you about printing in
10-pitch type on the Image Writer II.
Your answer suggested that he would
need to use a programming language
such as BASIC or Pascal to embed
printer control characters into the docu¬
ment being printed. However, there is a
much simpler way of obtaining 10-pitch
type from the I mage Writer II. In draft
mode, the IW II selects one of its
internal fonts based on the font size of
the characters in the document. For

example if the font size is 12 point, the
IW II will use its 12 character per inch
(12 pitch) font. If the font size is 14
point, the IW II prints in 10-pitch mode;

Using either Mae Write or Word , your
reader could change the font size of his
text to 14 point. To obtain proper

spacing between words, he should also
change to one of the monospaced fonts.
Although both the Monoco and Dover
fonts arc monospaced. Courier is the
easiest to read on the screen because it
has a 14-point version that can he in¬

stalled in the System. And if the user
selects the best quality from the switches
on the front of the IW II, the quality is
excellent.

Also your reader should be reminded
that the single spacing of a standard
typewriter can be obtained in Word by
using the Paragraph Format command
and changing “Auto” to W I lr in the line
spacing box. In Mae Write 4.5, the reader
would just need to check the 6 lines/inch
box in the ruler,

J. BKRMAN
MEMPHIS, TN

A Thanks for the lucid explanation. The
•saga of Image Writer II draft printing
continues....

AppleTalk ImageWrrter

l work in a small office, with two
• Macintosh Plus computers and an
I mage Writer II with an AppleTalk card.
However, when both Macs are trying to
print to the Image Writer at the same
time over AppleTalk, the I m age Writer
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user’s document, then a page from the
second user’s document, and continue m
this manner until both printing jobs arc

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It keeps getting better.

Drawing Environment

Choose your scale and units and
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positions, area calculations and auto
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New 7 Features:

Resize groups & bit maps propor¬
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Cursor position indicator. Deter
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on the drawing.

Hard disk install or de install your
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Increased accuracy. Select from

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The values will be rounded off correctly
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any object to scale regardless of com¬
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overlapping objects to obtain net area.

Piet format allows you to save a
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THE HELP FOLDER

complete. Is this a problem with Apple-
Talk or with mv hardware?

Patrick Standifer

SAN JOSE, CA

A Many applications , including Mac-
■Write and Word, treat a complete
printing job (for example, a ten-page docu¬
ment) as ten separate printing jobs of one
page each. Since each page is sent individ¬
ually to the printer, when ttw usen are
priming over AppleTalk simultaneously,
they vicjbr attention of the printer. Nothing
is wrong with AppleTalk or your hardware;
it*s the application that causes this phenome¬
non.

By the way, if you print in “Draft 19 mode,
most applications handle a multipage docu¬
ment ns an individual print job and the
second user's job won V Stan until the first is
complete.

RAM Cache

Q iOccasionalIv I’Ve had trouble run-
•ning Excel. It' 1 boot an BOOK HFS
floppy, the Dish Info DA tells me I have
64GK out ofl024K memory available. If
I launch the Excel program, I have only
22 K left, which reduces to a single digit,
IK, if I call up a spreadsheet. The

spreadsheet saves very slowly. Setting the
Mac’s RAM cache to zero doesn't seem
to change this.

Where has all the I024K RAM gone?
How can one use Excel with Switcher in a
I024K machine if it eats all that RAM?
Samuel Zelman

TOPEKA, KS

A If the RAA1 cache is activated via the
m control panel , and you deactivate it
while running an application, yon won't get
that memory back until yon actually ret uni
to the Finder and restart or reboot the Mac.
And if you reboot from a disk whose System

file has the RAM cache set , you’re right back
to where you started from, }ust remember
that you cant retrieve RAM cache memory
without: turning RAM cache off via the
control panel , and quitting the application
or rebooting the machine.

Microsoft recommends allocating 304K of
memory when running Excel under
Switcher, This will leave you plenty of worn
to run one or nvo additional applications
under Switcher,

System 38 Connectivity

Q Our MIS department has an IBM
• System 38. Several of us also have
Macintosh computers which we use to¬
day primarily for desktop publishing.
We’d like to be able to tie them into the
System s38. Our Apple dealer doesn’t
have a solution. Any suggestions >
Vance Lee

OAKLAND, CA

A Applet AUS department also has an
mIBM System 38 (that’s hard to admit).
To allow our Macs to talk to the System 38
wehre using a protocol converterfrom KM W
Systems Corporation. Ton can reach KMIV
at 8307 Highway 71 West in Austin,
Texas , 78735 ^

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ANDY MARTIN

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In January, at MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco, a new software package will be unveiled-a spreadsheet so revolutionary that it is being
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NUMBER CRUNCHING. 137

ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS. 144

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UTILITIES.152

WORD PROCESSORS.144

INTEGRATED SOFTWARE

Crunch is an icon-driven relational spreadsheet that features
versatile charting and database capabilities. Strong finan¬
cial logic, date and mathematical functions. Spreadsheets
can be linked. The manual Is clear and concisely written.
Macros are not supported, $195. Paladin, 2895 Zanker Rd.,
San Jose, CA 95134. CP (Jan 86)

Ensemble lets users create a database of words, pictures, and/or
m numbers; graph data; generate custom forms and link files
for applications such as mail merge. Can perform calcula¬
tions and math functions on data. Capacity limited by RAM
and disk size, $299.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA
01854. CP

Excel is THE power spreadsheet. Of the Mac, of the world. Has
44144 256-column by 16,384-row capability. Features include a
powerful macro function (with a recorder to make creation
simple) and elaborate charting facilities. 512K+ Mac and
external drive required. $395. Microsoft. 16011 NE 36th
Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399. CP (Prem)

Jazz provides well integrated modules for word processing, graphs,
4444 worksheets, databases and communications. HotView, is
best feature. Requires 512K+ and external drive. Version 1A
requires 80QK drive, $595, Lotus, 55 Cambridge Parkway,
Cambridge. MA 02142. CP (Prem)

Microsoft Work* is an integrated application that includes word
processing, database, spreadsheet and telecommunica¬
tions functions. The telecommunications module includes
background uploading and downloading $295. Microsoft,
16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 98052. NCP (Oct 86)
Quartet is an integrated program that works on a 128K Mac, built
4444 around a powerful spreadsheet with a full range of functions.
It can also be used as a database and provides good quality
charts from spreadsheet data. Documentation is adequate,
but not too well organized. $199, Haba Systems, 6711
Valgaen Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91406, CP

BUSINESS ACCOUNTING

BPI General Accounting is an easy to use system. Six journals,
tm AR. AP, Payroll and GL on one disk. Offset amounts automat¬
ically post to ledgers. Up to 8000 accounts. Detailed
records, wide range of reports, Switcher and NFS compati¬
ble, $425. Requires 512K-K BPI Systems, 3001 Bee Cave
Rd., Austin, TX 78746, NCP (Aug 86)

CheckMark is a Ledger with five preset journals: Cash Disburse-
ments, Receipts, General, Sales, and Purchases. Menus and
data entry are very straightforward. Flexible summary reports
are built in, but customer and vendor information is very
minimal. $295. CheckMark Software, PQ Box 860, Fort
Collins, CO 80522. CP

Gallery Finance is a one-write system with General Ledger, Cash
\m Disbursements, Payables and Receivables in a single pack¬
age. Data entered in a journal is automatically posted to
appropriate records, Excellent manual includes tutorial on
basic accounting principles. Requires 512K+, printer and
external drive. $795. Micromax Systems, 6868 Nancy Ridge
Dr,, San Diego, CA 92121, CP (Dec 85)

Hardlsk is a complex integrated hard disk system that does not
use Mac interface. Manual is detailed but complicated, with
a few pages that make it Mac-specific. Requires hard disk
and printer. $695 per module. Great Plains, Box 9739,
Fargo, ND 58109. NCP (Dec 85)

Insight Is a high-powered accounting program for the small to
«« medium size business. At present, two modules are avail¬
able: Accounts Receivable and General Ledger; others are in
the works. Requires 512K and hard disk. $595, Layered, 85
Merrimac St., Boston, MA 02114. NCP (Dec 86)

Rag* to Riches integrated accounting modules (General Ledger
44444 and Accounts Receivable) uses Mac interface to the hi it.
information entered in one window automatically transfers.
No detailed or flexible reporting. Very easy to use, but it can
be confusing with several windows on screen. Requires
512K+ and printer $199.95 per module. Chang Labs, 5300
Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA 95129. CP (Dec 85)
Strictly Business General Ledger features clear, well-outlined
tm set-up procedures and operations. Very flexible, up to 99
profit centers with up to 100 departments each; and
customized reports. Program print spools. Requires 512K-F,
printer and external drive. $395. Future Design, 13681
Williamette Dr, Westminster, CA 92683. NCP (Dec 85)

PERSONAL FINANCE

Dollars & Sense is a bookkeeping program. Easy to use, with a
m good manual and excellent on-screen help, Will handle up to
120 separate accounts or money categories. Uses standard
double-entry accounting techniques. $149.95. Monogram,
8295 S. La Cieoega Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90301. CP
Electric Checkbook keeps a running account of checkbook
Km transactions, balances checkbook to bank statements,
tracks bills, and prints out checks. Provides detailed finan¬
cial statements, calculates net worth, lists expenses by
category and tracks personal cash flow, $79,95, State of the
Art, 3191-C Airport Loop, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. CP

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Financial Cookbook provides nearly 3 dozen ‘recipes' 1 to help
«« users figure out financial formulas (i.e., mortgage costs at
different percentage rates) by inputting pertinent data. Very
user-friendly. $44.95, Electronic Arts, 2755 Campus Dr.,
San Mateo, CA 94403. CP

Financial Utilities Pack is a set of applications that allow users
ttt to figure annuities, compound and simple interest, depreci¬
ation and amortization. Simple and well documented $69.
Cognitive Software, PO Box 26948, Austin, TX 78755. NCR
Forecast is a tax estimating and what-if program designed to work
m with and use Dollars & Sense files, Straightforward, easy to
use program, $69.95. Monogram, 8295 S. La Cienega
Blvd,, Inglewood, CA 90301. CP
Market Pro is a comprehensive protfoiio management program for
«« the generation of fundamental data as well as technical
charts and graphs. Requires 512K+. external drive and
Hayes-compatible modem. $395. Pro Plus Software, 2830
E„ Brown Rd , Mesa, AZ 85203. NCP (Nov 86)

Profit Stalker II is a program for the generation of charts in order
(Hit to organize data on stocks, mutual funds and commodities.
Data is downloaded to the program or manually entered.
Free upgrades and excellent support. Requires 512K+ and a
Hayes-compatible modem. $250. ButtonOown Software, PO
Box 19493, San Diego, CA 92119. NCP (Aug 86)

DATABASES

Business Ftlevision is a masterpiece of Macintosh programming,
the only true graphic database on any micro. Much more
powerful than the original, accepts MacPa/nt graphics.
$395. Telos Software, 3420 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Moni¬
ca, CA 90405. CP (Feb 86)

dMatlll js a dBase compatible data base, it's semi-useful for
ttt converting already existing PC dBase files, not recommend¬
ed for creating Mac data bases from scratch Documentation
is lacking, program is buggy. $495. Format, 11770 Ber¬
nardo Plaza CL, San Diego, CA 92128. CP (Nov 86)
Doubla Helix js an environment to generate custom applications
tttt built around a data base-type framework. Contains enhance¬
ments to Helix 2.0. Includes custom menus, sub form
windows, password protection, and a universal dump and
load parser. Ability to store pictures as data fields. $495.
Odesta, 4084 Commercial 8lvd., Northbrook, IL 60062. NCP
(Oct 86)

Factfinder is a free-form information organizer (medium-duty
«« database). Users enter data on to factsheets in any manner
desired and select keywords. Searches are by name or
keyword. $149,95, Forethought, 250 Sobrante Way, Sunny¬
vale, CA 94086. NCP (Feb 86)

File is a flexible data manager. Creates files for a variety of data,
«« including simple graphics. Files are created in simple
row/coiumn format, but reports and forms are easily custom¬
ized by moving field names around on a blank form. $195.
Microsoft. 16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 98052. CP
FileMaker is a nonrelational database that combines lots of power
mi with ease of use. Calculation fields make the creation of
invoices and similar documents a snap. Reports can include
graphics and multiple data layouts are easy to construct,
$195. Forethought, 250 Sobrante Way, Sunnyvale, CA
940S6. NCP

FileMaker Plus retains features of FileMaker and reads FileMaker
Witt data, also displays up to 8 files, uses ‘lookup 1 ” to retrieve
data from other files. Enhanced calculation with many
additional functions. Scripts automate a sequence of ac¬
tions. Mac Plus compatible. $295, Requires 512K+. Fore¬
thought, 250 Sobrante Way, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. NCP
(Nov 86)

FllevIsJon is a simple database that can change the way you think
m about data and data organization. Records are based around
user created graphics screens. Screens and records can be
linked in complex ways. $195. Telos Software, 3420 Ocean
Park Blvd,, Santa Monica, CA 90405, CP

Helix is a relational database that makes extensive use of icons,
tttt Setup is easy due to adherance to the Mac interface. The
manual is clear, thorough and well-indexed. Complicated for
simple database applications, excellent where a relational
power is needed. Requires 512K+ and external drive. $395.
Odesta, 4084 Commercial Blvd., Northbrook, IL 60062, NCR
(Mar 86)

Mac Base is a forms-oriented relational database. Unfortunately,
(14 precise forms are hard to create. Allows calculated fields
and has quick and powerful search capabilities. Best when
much data is to be looked up. but not frequently entered.
Requires 512K+. $195, Eqtron Corp.. 330 Bay St., Toronto.
Ont. M5H 2S8, Canada. NCP (Jul 86)

MacRalax is a relational list manager that stores data in a column
tt format. Files can be related by sharing a common field.
Flexible design for reports. Easy to use but not obvious to
learn. $99.95. 512K required. Arrays, 6711 Valjean Ave.,
Van Nuys, CA 91406. NCP (Jan 87)

MegaFller is a simple fife manager Its limited capabilities have
« been far surpassed by cheaper and easier to use programs.
Valuable only in conjunction with MegaForm . $195. Mega-
haus. 5703 Oberlin Dr., San Diego, CA 92121. CP
Omnls 3 is a power database, featuring concurrent multiple file
«« management. Can handle 24 files. 12 at a time, and is fully
relational. Create custom environments including user-de¬
fined menus, commands and dialogs, $495. Blyth. 2655
Campus Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403. CP (Mar 86)
OverVUE is a power-packed relational database that has extensive
ttttt sorting, summarizing and report generation capacity. Has
macros and a charting function. Good manual. It can
exchange files with a very wide variety of other programs
(including IBM software), $295. ProVUE, 222 22nd St.,
Huntington Beach, CA 92648. NCP (Nov 85)

Professional Bibliographic System is a database designed for
m storing and retrieving bibliographies. Predesigned forms for
20 types of entries. Citations automatically formatted with
correct punctuation for printing, $295. Personal Bibliograph¬
ic Software, PO Box 4250, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106. CP (Feb 86)
Record Holder is a flexible, easy-to-use form-oriented data
ttt manager. Set up is particularly simple and the search
features are powerful. $49.95, Software Discoveries, 99
Crestwood Rd.. Tolland, CT 06084. NCP (Apr 86)

Reflex For The Mac is a flexible relational database. Excellent
ttttt report generator gives full control over appearance, style of
output. Requires 512K+, second drive or hard disk, highly
recommended. $99,95, Borland International, 4585 Scotts
Valley Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066, NCP (Nov 86)

NUMBER CRUNCHING

CllckOn Worksheet is a 50-row by 20-column spreadsheet that
tt! loads onto any system disk as a desk accessory. Though
small in size, it has remarkable capabilities for a desk
accessory. Changes in the worksheet automatically reflect in
charts, $79.95, T/Maker Company, 2115 Landings Dr,,
Mountain View, CA 94043. NCP
DesIgnScope is a construction kit for digital and analog circuits,
tttt Up to 254 components can be utilized in a single circuit, and
the equivalent of a dual trace osciiliscope plots output in
real-time. Good fortesting basic (and not-so-basic) circuitry
without touching a breadboard. $249.95. Brainpower,
24009 Ventura Blvd,, Calabasas, CA 91302. NCP
MacCalc is a fast, competent, full-featured spreadsheet with
tttt impressive built-in functions, font control, on-line help,
ability to expand columns and rows and read/write SYLK or
WKS files. The worksheet is 125 columns by 999 rows. Cell
names, printing power make MacCalc a very flexible pure
spreadsheet. $99.95. Bravo Technologies, c/oDPAS, PO Box
T, Gilroy, CA 95021. NCP (Sep 86)

Multiplan, the first Mac product from someone other than Apple is
tttt beginning to show age. Still a very capable basic spread¬
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built-in functions, other standard spreadsheet features,
$199.95, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way. Redmond, WA
98052-6399. CP (Mar 86)

PraAnalysIs is a powerful real estate investment analysis pro-
UtUgram. This program uses the Mac Interface as well as any
program yet published. Analytic power is combined with
report generating so good you have to see it. Requires
512K+. $295. Technalysis Services, 14555 DeBeEl Rd., Los
Aitos Hills, CA 94022. CP

StatView is a high-powered statistical calculation package. Easily
and efficiently handles all the common statistical tech¬
niques and many uncommon tests. Has a user-definable
area as well. Easy to use and well documented. $199,95.
Brainpower, 24009 Ventura Blvd,, Calabasas, CA 91302.
NOP (May 86)

StatView 512+ Is a very intuitive statistical analysis program with
44(41 tools needed to understand any set of data. Holds data in a
spreadsheet-like form. Full-featured, fast and accurate.
Extremely wide range of analyses possible. Requires a
mini mum of 512K of RAM & 8G0K of disk space to operate,
$349,95 Brainpower, 24009 Ventura Blvd., Calabasas, CA
91302. NCR (Dec 86)

Stat Works is a general-purpose statistics package that is both
tttt powerful and easy to use. Handies all standard tests and
procedures. Single variable and multivariate statistics are
supported, $125, Cricket Software, 3508 Market St., Phila¬
delphia. PA 19104’, NCP (May 86)

GRAPHICS & DESIGN

Animation Toolkit I lets users prepare "film clips" of moving
(4 objects which play back at varying speeds, like old-fash¬
ioned flip books. Each film clip plays repetitiously as It is
being constructed. A limited animation tool, but a lot of fun.
$49,95. Ann Arbor Softworks, 308Va S. State St., Ann Arbor,
Ml 48104. CP

Art Grabber with Body Shop is a desk accessory that lets users
4444 browse MacPaint documents, selecting and copying as they
choose. Selections can be larger than screen size. Also
included are MacPaint documents and templates to allow
tne creation of people in your art, $49.95, Hayden, 600
Suffolk St, Lowell, MA 01853. NCP
CalendarMaker creates monthly calendars in a variety of formats.
44444 Users can incorporate their art and daily notes. Note files
can be Imported from a variety of DA calendars and
outllners. Available as shareware and prelicensed, $30, CE
Software, 801 73rd St. r Des Moines, IA 50312. NCP (Dec
86 )

Chart can easily create area, bar. column, line, pie, scatter and
4444 combination charts, A total of 42 styles are provided.
Limited to 100 data items (64 in a series} on a 128K Mac,
approximately twice that on a 512K Mac. $125. Microsoft,
16011 NE 36th WAY, Redmond, WA 98052-6399. CP
CIlckArt Special Effects is a MacParnf enhancement desk
accessory. Allows the user to distort, stretch, rotate and use
perspective on MacPaint documents. A necessary addition
for all serious users of MacPaint. $49,95. T/Maker, 2115
Landings Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043. NCP (Apr 86)
CotorPrlnt facilitates color printing on the standard ImageWriter,
444 MacPaint files set up as overlays are read into CoiorPrint,
and the program controls proper positioning registration and
colored ribbon switching. Good results require lots of hard
work, but it's cheaper than an ImageWriter II, $49.95. Esoft
Enterprises, PO Box 179, Qwasso, OK 74055, NCR (Mar 86)
ComlcWorks is a graphics wonder. Manipulate bit mapped graph-
4444 ics as independent objects, with up to 64 layers of matting.
An airbrush, multiple page capacity, full-screen drawing,
and two disks of gorgeous artwork round out this package.
Needs better LaserWriter support. $79,95. Mindscape,
3444 Dundee Rd,, Northbrook, IL 60062, NCP (Nov 86)
Cricket Graph easily generates 12 graph types. Multiple windows
44444 c ^r\ be displayed. Graph prints in up to 8 colors with up to 16

patterns. Self-generating macro formatting. Switcher , HFS,
LaserWriter ana plotter compatible. $195. Cricket Software,
3508 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104. NCP (Jun 86)
DaVfncI Building Blocks features predrawn blocks of brown-
ttltt stone. garden, and skyscraper portions that can be cut and
pasted together to form landscape and architectural draw¬
ings, Fun for even non-pro's. $79,95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk
St., Lowell, MA 01853, NCP

DrawArt is the first MacDraw clip-art disk. Unfortunately, the
14 assortment of graphics is too ragtag and the quality of
images ranges from great to terrible. No image index.
$49,95, Desktop Graphics, 400 Country Dr,, Dover, DE
19901, NCP'. (Oct 86)

Easy3D is a three-dimensional, solid modeling masterpiece. Four
4444 variable light sources, powerful sculpting tools and an
exquisite user interface make this a must-have for graphics
enthusiasts. Requires 512K+. Enabling Technologies, 600
S. Dearborn, Chicago. IL 60605, NCP (May 86)

Fluent Fonts is a two-disk collection of fonts. Forty-nine different
4444 items are included. All install easily in user Systems. Most
are well executed and some are extraordinarily nice. This is
a real bargain for font lovers, $49,95, Casady, PO Box
223779, Carmel, CA 93922. NCP
Fantastic is the best font editor now available for the Mac,
44444 Features a large editing window with a grid to make
positioning easy. Select letters to edit by clicking on a
matrix of the font. Allows scaling of existing fonts and
previewing the various styles (Italic, bold, etc,), $49.95.
Altsys, PO Box 865410, Plano, TX 75086, NCP (Dec 85)
Fontographer is a complex, but excellent laser font creator. The
44444 fonts created have 300 bits per inch resolution. The fonts
are actually downloadable PostScript files. $395. Altsys, PO
Box 865410, Plano, TX 75086. CP
FullPaint is an expanded version of MacPaint, Features include
14444 full-screen drawing, multiple documents open simulta¬
neously, brush editing, movable tool palettes, special text
effects and much more. It fills the gaps left by MacPaint .
$99,95. Ann Arbor Softworks, 308Vs State St,, Ann Arbor, Ml
48104. NCP (Jun 86)

GrayPalnt is a graphics system for creating gray-level pictures. At
444 the time of review, program was unfinished with some non¬
working functions. What did work was impressive. $59,95.
MacNifty Central, 6860 Shingle Creek Pkwy,, Minneapolis.
MN 55430 NCP (Dec 86)

Grid Maker is a tool for artists who use perspective. The program
tti automatically generates a series of three-dimensional plane
sets that can be pasted into MacDraw Sizes and viewing
vantage point are easily modified, $49. FolkStone Design,
Inc,, PO Box 86982, North Vancouver, BC V7L 4P6, Canada.
NCP (Nov 86)

Home Design is a home planning tool that includes three disks
4444 full of MacPaint files of household items needed to design a
home. Art Grabber installer is included for easy manuvering
of items. The professional home designer, as well as the
amatuer will feel at ease using this program. $79,95,
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St„ Lowell, MA 01854. NCP (Jun 86)
Human Forms allows users to create perfectly proportioned
444 humans in any posture or position. Contains over 1000
separate body parts. Tiny X marks make limb, head and
detail placement perfect. Requires MacPaint $59.95. Bert
Monroy. 205 Luquer St., Brooklyn, NY 11231. NCP
lean Switcher changes icons for applications and the documents
4444 they generate, permitting you to customize icons for person¬
al work. New icons can be built pixel by pixel In the program
or created in MacPaint and pasted in, $19.95. PBI Software,
1111 Triton Dr + . Foster City, CA 94404. NCP
LaserFonts are new fonts for the LaserWriter. Users download
tm them to their machines. Very high quality and very simple to
use. Willamette looks like Avant Garde, MicroFonts provides
tiny, expanded and condensed versions of the LaserWriter's
own fonts, $29.95 each. Century Software, 2306 Cotner
Ave,, Los Angeles, CA 90064. NCP

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MINIFINDERS

La&erWorks is a high-resolution font and graphics editor, produc-
41444 ing LaserWriter-compatible end products. Its numerous well-
designed features make it suitable for users of all levels,
from beginners to pros. Requires 512K+ and external drive
or hard disk. $299. EDO Communications, 63 Arnold Wayh,
W. Hartford H CT 06119, CP (Sep 86)

The Mac Art Dept, is a collection of over 150 graphic images
4444 ranging from foods to hands holding signs to borders. Best
suited for letterheads, memos, other business use. $39.95,
Simon & Schuster, Computer Software Div., 1230 Ave, of the
Americas, New York, NY 10020. NCP (Mar 86)
Mac-a-Mug is an Identikit type program for creating faces from
444 facia! feature files. Uses scroll bars that are slow and jerky.
Lots of creative fun. 512K+ Mac required. $59.95. Shaher-
azam, PO Box 27731, Milwaukee, Wl 53226. CP (Jul 86)
MacDraft is an object-oriented graphics program. It sports ad-
444 vanced features such as variable scaling, single degree
rotation, complex arcs and a FatBits-like magnification
mode. Best used to complement MacDraw. not replace it,
$239. Innovative Data Design, 1975 Willow Pass Rd.,
Concord, CA 94520. CP (Feb 86)

MacDraw is an object-oriented structured graphics program. Can
44444 be used to design forms, create presentation materials and
do technical illustrations. Drawing sizes up to 8 feet by 10
feet are possible. Text can be easily generated and integrat¬
ed in the graphics. $195, Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani
Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. NCP (Nov 85)

MacModel is an economical 30 package with shading. Somewhat
444 sketchy Mac interface, shading speed slow (but acceptable),
grainy image resolution. On-line help screens are a welcome
addition. Frequent updates and low price make this a
reasonably good buy. $40, a.P P.l,E CO-OP, 290 3W 43rd
St., Renton, WA 98055, NCP (Aug 86)

MacPaint is the graphics program that started a whole new genre.
4444 Still the best freehand graphics tool, Version 1.5 supports
512K+ Macs and the LaserWriter. Multiple tools, patterns
and too numerous to describe. $125. Apple,

20525 Mariani Ave,, Cupertino, CA 95014 NCP (Nov 85)
MacPubllsher is a tool for creating newsletters. Allows multiple
page issues. Layout is fairly easy but hard to do precisely.
Runs slowly on a 128K Mac; a 512K should be considered a
requirement. Printer support, including LaserWriter, is good.
$99.95. Boston Software Publishers, 19 Ledge Hill Rd.,
Boston, MA 02132. CP

MacPubllsher II is the souped-up version of MacPubiisher. Allows
tm MacWrite and Word files to be imported and edited; allows
up to 96 pages; supports kerning, borders, cropping, and it
runs on 128K Macs. $195. Boston Software Publishers.
1260 Boylston St., Boston. MA 02215. CP (Sep 86)
Mac3D 2.0 is a feature-laden 3D program with a MaeOraw-like
m* interface. Postscript-resolution shading with six variable
light sources, user-definable tools, and many more features
make this a graphic powerhouse, $249.95, Challenger
Software, 18350 Kedzie Ave., Homewood, IL 40430. NCP
(Jan 87)

Magic Slate is a graphics and design program with built-in special
m effects and custom features. Fun but sometimes difficult to
use. Great for pattern design, block and geometric graphics
and watercoior-style 'washes,'' Requires 512K+. $99. De-
vionics, PO Box 2126, Covina, CA 91722, CP (Feb 86)
MapMakar produces maps and analyses of related geographical
4444 data. Additional data disks available. Documentation could
be better Requires 512K: second drive recommended.
$295, Select Micro Systems, 2717 Crescent Dr. t Yorklown
Heights, NY 10598. NCP (Jan 87)

M.U.D (MacroMInd Utility Disk) Is a disk of various utilities for
44444 MusicWorks and VideoWorks owners, it a iso contains Cheap-
Paint and Arr Grabbers, two graphics desk accessories that
are musts for graphics enthusiasts. Hayden. 600 Suffolk St..
Lowell; MA 01854, NCP (Feb 86)

PageMaker is an advanced layout and makeup program. Can
4444 easily create multiple page documents. Output is optimized

for LaserWriter. Good documentation, $495, Aldus, 411
First Avenue South, Seattle. WA 98104. CP (Jun 86)

Phoenix 3D is an economical 3D drawing package, with features
that belong in a more expensive program. Multiple light
sources, fine object placement and orientation control, and
a good selection of shapes. $39.95, Dreams of the Phoenix,
PO Box 10273, Jacksonville, FL 32247, NCP (Oct 86)
PIctureBase is a program and accompanying desk accessory for
44444 organizing MacPaint and MacDraw files. Graphics are orga¬
nized into libraries, and can be searched for by keywords,
$69.95. Symmetry Corporation, 761 E, University, Mesa, AZ
85203. NCP (Jun 86)

PosterMaker can enlarge MacPaint drawings by up to 3200
m percent. Full-screen cut and copy are supported, so any
portion of a Paint document can be selected and scaled.
Borders can be added automatically. Includes some nice
digitized graphics files. $39,95, Strider Software, Beecher
Lake Rd,, Pembine, Wl 54156. NCP (Jul 86)

The Print Shop makes it easy to create greeting cards, banners,
«« letterhead and signs in minutes. Offers full access to fonts,
styles, graphics. Can pul! images from MacPaint files or off
the Clipboard. Fun and easy to use. $79,95, Broderbpnd, 17
Paul Dr,, San Rafaei, CA 94903, CP (Dec 86)
RoadySotGo is a page makeup program for 512K+ Macs. Users
«« build up pages from blocks of text, graphics and rules. Text
and art may be pasted in from another source or created
within the program. Good LaserWriter support. $195, Man¬
hattan Graphics, 163 Varick St, New York, NY 10013. NCP
(Apr 86)

Slide Shew Magician 1.3 is useful for creating full screen audio-
444 visual presentations on the Mac. Frame branching, improved
editing capabilities, external cassette recorder synchroniza¬
tion and digitized sound capabilities make this much more
powerful than the original, $59,95, Magnum, 21115 Devon¬
shire St., Chatsworth, CA 91311. CP (Mar 86}

Story boarder produces working animated storyboards for use in
m* film and video production. Imports graphics from MacPa/nt;
allows screen masking to simulate television, 35mm or
70mm screen widths; allows limited animation and special
effects. Storyboards can be printed in several formats.
$495, American InteNiware, PO Box 6980, Torrance, CA
90504. CP (Nov 86)

VldeoWorks is a full-featured animation package. Professional
44444 quality animations are easily accomplished using the tools
provided. Features frame-by-frame and real-time modes.
Comes with an art disk of predrawn images and Art Grabber.
$99.95, Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 01854. CP
(Nov 85)

WorId-Class Fonts! comes in two volumes of three disks each.
44444 Includes all the Mac the Knife fonts and a lot more,
including 2 useful utilities. This is now the best collection of
ImageWriter fonts available. Each volume; $39; both vol¬
umes: $59. Dubl-Click Software, 18201 Gresham St., North-
ridge, CA 91325, NCP (Dec 86)

COMMUNICATIONS

KomePak is a package consisting of HomeTerm, an excellent
44 simple telecommunications program with strong macro fea¬
tures; HomeFmd, an electronic filer as bad as HomeTerm is
good; and Apple's Edit, a simple, non-HFS-compatible text-
file editor. $49.95. Batteries Included, 30 Mural St., Rich¬
mond Hill, Ontario L4B 1B5, Canada. NCP (Aug 86)
litTalk comes with its own communications command language
44444 able to do unattended sessions. Supports Xmodem and
MacBinary Has a macro key function. Many sample set up
documents and command language files provided, $145.
Palanlir, 12777 Jones Rd., Houston, TX 77070. CP (Prem)
MacTermlital provides basic telecommunications and terminal
44 emulation for the Mac user. Doesn't have macros nor any
sort of auto redial/auto fogon capability. Best for those
needing faithful VT1QQ or IBM 3278 emulation — it is

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lows full automation of communications, if desired. $74,95.
Software Ventures. 2907 Claremont Ave., Berkeley. CA
94705. NCP (Jun 86)

Red Ryder is a full-featured telecommunications program that
44414 supports MacBinary. Xmodem and Kermlt. Remote service
procedures, auto procedure writer and keyboard macros.
$40. The FreeSoft Corp.. 10828 Lacklink, St. Louis, MO
63114, NCP (Jun 86)

Smartcom II balances power and ease of use. Capable of
44444 unattended operation and has a very powerful command
language. Supports MacBinary, Xmodem, and Hayes Verifi¬
cation protocols. The large screen buffer can easily be
archived. $149. Hayes. 5923 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.,
Norcross, GA 30092, NCP (Prem)

Telescapa is the power tefecommunicator's terminal program. Can
444 be configured to emulate any terminal. The documentation
does not adequately explain the many features. $125,
Mainstay, 28611B Canwood St., Agoura Hills, CA 91301.
NCP (Jun 86)

VeraaTarm features Include DEC VT100 and VT52, Tektronix 4014
44444 graphics terminal and Data General DG200 emulation.
Supports Xmodem and MacTerminal Xmodem protocols and
MacBinary. VersaTerm is easy to use and well documented.
$99, Peripherals, Computers & Supplies, 2457 Perkiomen
Ave., Mt. Penn, PA 19606. CP (Prem)

WORD PROCESSORS

Document Compare allows users to compare any two MacWrite
III 4.5. ASCII or MDS documents. Differences In spelling,
punctuation, formatting and wording are detected. Docu¬
ments can be printed out with differences highlighted. $99,
The Model Office Company, 49 Wellington Street East.
Toronto, Canada M5E 1C9, CP (May 86)

EgWord is a MacWrite Iookaiike that allows full Japanese kanji
444 word processing on the Mac. Does a superlative job of
making Japanese text-entry as easy as possible. Great for
students of Japanese, may find a place in international
business as well. $300. Counterpoint Systems, PO Box
1685. Cambridge, MA 02138. CP (Apr 86)

Hoyden: Speller (version 1.2) Is a batch-type spelling checker. It's
| 4 | flexible, but two drawbacks: small dictionary and you can!
change number of unique words, $19.95. Hayden Software,
no longer in business. CP (Oct 86)

Just Text is a professional level word processor and page makeup
44444 program that generates PostScript output. Comes with a set
of LaserWriter utilities that allow total manipulation of art
and text. Requires LaserWriter or other PostScript compati¬
ble output device, $195. Knowledge Engineering, GPO Box
2139, New York, NY 10116, NCP (Dec 85)

Liberty Spell Checker is a fast, effective interactive checker. The
mi dictionary Is smaller than average, but well chosen. Unfortu¬
nately, it has a few misspelled words, $59,95. DataPak,
14011 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. CP (Oct 86)
MacOM a DA spelling checker with both a small and extended
444 dictionary. Its best point is the excellent thesaurus, provides
antonyms & glossary. A slow checker. $99. EnterSet, 410
Townsend St,. San Francisco, CA 94107. CP (Oct 86)
Maclndaxar is a good writers utility that takes much of the
4444 mechanical work and time out of preparing an index. Works
with MacWrite and Word. Can generate word frequency
counts. $79.95, Boston Software Publishers, 1260 Boylston
St., Boston, MA 02215. CP (Jui 86)

MacLlghtnlng is an interactive spelling checker in desk accessory
44444 form. Text can be checked on the fly or by selection. Works
within many applications, and options include a thesaurus,
medical and legal dictionary. $99.95. Target Software.
14206 Southwest 136th St,, Miami, FL 33186, NCR (Oct 86}

Mucspull+ (version 1.10) Is a spelling checker that installs as a
4444 desk accessory. Works easily with MacWrite 4.5 and 2.2 and
Word, hut has some drawbacks. New version just available.
Requires 512K+, two drives or hard disk, $99. Creighton
Development, 16 Hughes, Irvine, CA 92718. NCR
Mac+$pall*R1ght spelling checker has top notch dictionary
444 and thesaurus, but works slowly. Limited to MacWrite 4.5.
Publisher support nil with closing of company $89. Assim¬
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MacWrite is the basic Mac word processor. While it doesn't have
4444 every bell and whistle, it is more than adequate for most
users. Features include global search and replace, page
numbers Indicated in the scroll bar and excellent LaserWriter
compatibility. $125, Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave.,
Cupertino, CA 95014. NCP

QulckWord is a word processing accessory that adds sophistical-
mi ed glossaries to MacWrite, Simple to install and use. yet
powerful and efficient. $49,95. EnterSet, 410 Townsend
St. T San Francisco, CA 94107. NCP
The Right Word (ver 3.0)Is a standalone spelling checker that can
44 be used with Word, MacWrite and Jazz. Dictionary scrolling
can only be done one word at a time. You have to reload
program to check each document. Biggest minus Is speed,
$89. Assimilation, no longer in business. NCP (Oct 86)
Spelling Champion is a fast and accurate batch-type spelling
4444 checker. Backup feature allows you to undo corrections in a
paragraph. Works only with MacWY/te 4.5. $39.95, Champi¬
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(Oct 86)

Spoll&well Is an effective and powerful standalone spelling
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chosen dictionary, $59.95, Greene, Johnson, 15 Via Chua-
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Ttitinderl Is the best spelling checker currently available. Has a
44444 50,000-word dictionary Features Learned Words (a superb
glossary) and statistics. A very fast DA, It works interactively
and in selection mode. Requires 512K+, $49,95, Batteries
Included, 30 Mural St,, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada L4B
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Word is a power word processor for the Mac . It has just about every
tm feature your heart could desire. Supports keyboard com¬
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multicolumn text. Integrates with the rest of the Microsoft
line, $195, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA
98052-6399. CP (May 86)

Ward Handler is a word processor with elements of MacWrite and
tm Word, Can delete, rename, etc,, without quitting. Has case
change, flexible printing options and glossary. Slow,
$79.95, Advanced Logic Systems, 1283 Reamwood Ave.,
Sunnyvale, CA 94089. NCP (Oct 86)

ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS

Acta is an outline processor In desk accessory format. It has
44444 practically all the power of a standalone program, and then
some. Can save files as Acta outlines, MacWrite or text files.
A must-have for those who do outlining. $59.95, Symmetry,
761 E. University Dr., Mesa, AZ 85203. NCR (Jul 86)
Calliope is a new type of outlining program. Chunks of information
m are manipulated as small "'light bulbs" containing text.
Related elements can be graphically connected, and their
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DocIslonMap organizes data to facilitate decision making. Unique
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MacProJect allows a user to plan and track a project from
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How to know when to replace batteries, which
ones to use and where to find them (Page 21)

How to solve the problem, instantly, of disks that
don’t show a Bomb icon, but still seem unbootable
(Page 1)

How to manipulate very small images selected
with the Lasso by "remote control," in MacPaint
(Page 80)

III How to put additional Note pads on one disk,
even if the Note Pad is already filled with
information (Page 35)

How to get your Mac to select text word-by-word
instead of character-by-character (Page 10)

How to automatically name cells to the right of
their labels in Excel (Page 41)

How to update your desktop file and save icon
positions when you close a drawer in the
HyperDrive (Page 56)

How to use a single key to create menu dividing
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Microsoft BASIC (Page 104)

How to gain fast access to built-in fonts from the
draft mode on the ImageWriter II (Page 60)

How to keep both hands on the keyboard and still
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MODULA-2

the successor to Pascal

i FULL interface to Mac Toolbox as
outNned in Ingude Macmlosh
i Smart linker for greatly reduced
code size

i True native code implementation
(Not UCSD p'Code gr M-code)
i Sophisticated mull*-pass compiler
allows forward references and code
optimization

i ReailnOut, LongmOot, FileSystem.

Strings. Storage. Terminal. inOut
i Streams. MatttLibO and alt standard
modules

i CODE statement for assembly code

i Phone and network customer
support provided
i Supports real numbers and
transcendental functions ie. sin, cos.
tan. arctan, exp. In. log, power, sqrt
i 3d graphics and muin-tasking
demos

i Full Screen Editor linked to compiler
locates and identities all errors
i 350-page manual
i No royalties or copy protection
i Resource Compiler
i 512K Mac. Mac Plus. HFS

Pascal and Modula-2 source code are nearly identical. Modula-2 should he thought
of as an enhanced superset ol Pascal Professor Nik laws Wirth fthe creator ot
Pascal) designed Modula-2 to replace Pascal

Added features of Module

i CASE has an ELSE and may contain ■
subranges

i Programs may he broken up into
Modules for separate compilation
i Machine level interface ,.

Bit-wise operators

Direct port and Memory access «

Absolute addressing

Interrupt structure ■

2 not lound in Pascal

Dynamic strings that may be any
size

Mutti-tasking is supported
Procedure variables
Module version control
Programmer definable scope of
objects

Open array parameters {VAR r:
ARRAY OF REALS;}

Elegant type transfer functions

Mac Plus

Benchmarks, (secs)

Compile

Link

ExecuEe

Optimized

Size

Sieve ol Eraiosihenes

7.3

5.0

5,1

1257 bytes

Float

0.0

fl.6

103

3944 bytes

Calc

6.0

5.7

4 3

1736 bytes

Null program

57

56

—

1100 byte?

MODULE Sieve:

MODULE Float;

CONST Size = 8190;

FROM MathLibO IMPORT sm, In, exp.

TYPE Flag Range = [0-.SizeJ.

sqn. arctan:

Flag Set = SET OF Flag Ra nge;

VAR x.y: REAL; i: CARDINAL:

VAR Flags; FlagSet.

BEGIN rST-,5A-,S5--)

t FlagRange,

x = 1.0;

Prime, k Couni. Iter CARDINAL.

FOR i;'= 1 TO 1000 DO

BEGIN (‘SS-.SR-.SA* )

y:= sin (x); lr> (x); y- exp (x);

FOR Her:- 1 TO 10 DO

y:“ sqn (x); y:= arctan {x);

Count:- 0,

x:= x - 0 01 i

Flags; - FlagSet(); f empty set ’I

END;

FOR i;= 0 TO Size DO

END lloat.

IF (i IN Flags) THEN

Prime;: {i J 2) * 3; k;: i ♦ Prime

WHILE k <- Size DO

MODULE calc;

(NCL (Flags. k|;

VAR a.b.g; REAL. n. i: CARDINAL.

k:-k* Prime:

BEGIN rST-.SA-.5S-’)

END;

n:- 5000;

Counts Count * 1:

a:= 2.71&2S; b - 3.14159: Cr = TO;

END;

FOR >:= 1 TO n DO

END;

C: = c\a; c r c*b: C- c/a; c- c/b;

END:

END.

END Sieve.

END calc

Product History

The TDt Modula-2 compiler has been running on me Pinnacle supermicro (Aug.
"B4), Atari ST {Aug. '05) r Amiga ( Jan. ’86) and will soon appear on UNIX in the 4(h
Oir. '36.

Regular Version $89.95 Developer's Version St49.95 Commercial Version $299,95
The regular version contains all the features listed above. The developer's version
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kermlt file transfer utility - a Modula-2 CLI. The commercial version contains all of
Ihe Mac module source files.

Other Modula-2 Products

Kermit - Contains full source plus SI 5 connect time to CompuServe. $29.95
Examples - Many of the programs from Inside Macintosh

translated into Modula-2. $24.95

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MINIFINDERS &

and finish dates for each task. Can report on resource
interdependencies and generate all needed printed reports.
$125, Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave,. Cupertino, CA
95014. NCR (Mar 86)

MacSpec is a specification writing took a cross between word and
m outline processors. Can automatically number and indent
headings, and renumber everything when lines are moved.
Text under headings is handled and formatted as though in a
simple word processor, HFS-compatible. $199.95. LM Soft¬
ware. PC Box 93, Belmont, CA 94002. NCP (Oct 86)
MaxThink is an outline and idea processor that focuses on
4444 thinking skills. Helps you establish priorities, evaluate
ideas, synthesize information. Some unique features and an
innovative manual. $89. MaxThink, 230 Crocker Ave., Pied¬
mont, CA 94610. NCP (Oct 86)

Micro Planner is a heavy-duty project planner. Excellent, but slow.
444 at the mechanics of project planning. Reports are its
weakness. Speed is much improved when a hard disk is
used, $395, MicroPianning Software USA, 235 Montgomery
St.. San Francisco, CA 94104. CP {Mar 86)

Micro Plan nor Plus is a great project management system with
4IU4 major enhancement to Micro Planner. Outstanding analysis
capability. Memory based, making it much faster than the
original. Includes a font menu. Even saves reports out in
MacDraw format for further work. Uses standard print
drivers. HFS compatible. Micro Planning Software USA, 235
Montgomery St., San Francisco. CA 94104. CP (Dec 86)
Mlndaight is a professional level decision support and business
mt planning package. Can work with IFRS on mainframes, and is
able to transmit models in both directions. Powerful and
easy to use. Requires 512K+. $195, Execucom Systems. P0
Box 9758. Austin. TX 78766. CP
MORI is an incredibly powerful outiine processor with gobs of
14444 great features: instant charts, math capabilities, multiple
windows, font and style control, templates and more. Prints
outlines in any of several standard formats, even in color.
Requires 512K+. $295. Living Videofext, 2432 Charleston
Rd., Mountain View, CA 94043. NCP (Sep 86)
ods/Consultant is a program that lets users organize ideas and
144 helps in thinking through and solving problems. Easy to use
thanks to extensive use of icons and on-screen help. This
program introduces some low-level Al (artificial intelligence)
concepts. $200. Organization Development Software, 1011
E, Touhy Ave., Des Plaines, IL 60018, CP (Apr 86)
ThlnkTank 512 is a very fast and intuitive organizational tool. Full
m% keyboard control is possible. Can store and paste graphics
into outlines. Slide show features allows high-quality pre¬
sentations to be created. Good report formatting and print¬
ing capability. $195. Living Videotext, 2432 Charleston Rd.,
Mountain View. CA 94043. CP (Jan 86)

DESK MANAGERS

BatteryPak is a set of 9 handy desk accessories including
44444 scientific and RPN calculators, a background text file printer
and a 250-page note pad with search and phone dialing
capabilities. Disk Tools is the best DA currently available,
$49.95. Batteries Included. 30 Mural St.. Richmond Hill,
Ontario, L4B 1B5, Canada. NCP (Dec 85)

Front Desk lets small businesses and offices easily keep track of
m personnel schedules, activities and payments. The program
can keep track of up to 15 employees, functioning as a day-,
week- and month-at-a-glance calendar $149.95. Layered,
85 Merrimac St,, Boston, MA 02114, CP (Dec 85)
MacOfflx combines many of the simple and necessary office
mi functions in one easy-to-use package. Features include
simple word processing, forms design, form letter produc¬
tion, report generation and filing. Good design nearly makes
the manual unnecessary. $79, Emerging Technology, 4760
Walnut St„ Boulder, CO 80301. CP
Mighty Mac is a personal data manager. Features include an on-
tm screen calendar, a Directory, Reminder function (with audio

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and visual a farm), and an Event function. Very good search
capabilities for accessing information. $59.95. Advanced
Logic Systems, 1195 E, Arques Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086.
CP (Aug 86)

My Office lets you handle your files and papers in much the same
4444 way you did before you got a computer. Excellent use of
graphic symbols makes this program the easiest to use of its
type. $129.95. DataPak. 14011 Ventura Blvd., Sherman
Oaks, CA 91423, CP (Prem)

Quickset is a set of desk management and organizational tools
m that can be used as desk accessories or applications.
Functions include note filer, card filer, calendar, phone
dialer, financial and statistical calculators and a file encryp-
tor. $49.95. EnterSet, 410 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA
94107. NCP (Dec 85)

Sidekick is a set of desk organization applications and accesso-
m* ries. Functions include phone dialer and logger, desk
accessory terminal, calculator, clock, editor and more.
When resource files are included modules take up a lot of
disk space. $84.95. Borland International, 4585 Scotts
Valley Dr,, Scotts Valley. CA 95066. NCP (Dec 85)
Smart Alarms is the best reminder system for the Mac. Easy to
till! use, versatile, and, well, smart. This self-running DA auto¬
matically reminds you of anything you enter into its Remind¬
er file, giving you a wide range of useful advance warning
options. $49,95, Imagine Software, 2000 Center St., Berke¬
ley, CA 94704. NCP (Oct 86)

Top Desk is a set of 7 self-installing (and self-removing) DAs,
«« Menu Key adds Command key sequences to programs, View
allows looking at and moving data between up to 8 Mac Write
documents, BackPrint, Shorthand, Blank, Encrypt, and
Launch. $59.95. Cortland Computer, PO Box 9916, Berke¬
ley, CA 94709. NCP (May 86)

UTILITIES

Accessary Pak 1 is a set of useful applications and utilities. Paint
Cutter alone is worth the price. That program allows users to
browse and manipulate full page MacPaint documents,
$39.95. Silicon Beach t 11212 Datby PI., San Diego, CA
92126. NCP (Nov 85)

Copy l( Mac does efficient sector and bit copies and in its latest
version can back-up virtually all Mac software. Features
graphic displays of copy progress. Comes with MacToois, a
multiuse utility that can recover many damaged files.
$39.95. Central Point Software, 9700 SW Capitol Highway,
Portland, OR 97219, NCP (Apr 86)

Disk Ranger is a speedy cataloguing program that doubles as an
4444 efficient labelmaker, Comes with pinfeed labels. Works with
regular and hard disks. Can catalog HFS systems. $49.95
Mainstay, 2861 IB Can wood St., Agoura Hills. CA 91301.
NCP (Mar 86)

Dubl-CIIck Calculator Construction Sot lets users design per-
44414 sonalized calculators with a variety of standard and special
functions. Finished calculators can be saved as installable
desk accessories or as clickable applications. $59, Dubl-
Click Software. 18201 Gresham St,, Northridge, CA 91325.
NCP (Apr 86)

Fedlt Plus is the file and disk editor for everyone, from newest Mac
44444 owner to oldest. It can do more for your disks and files than
any other application. Can recover deleted MFS files. If you
own a Mac, get it. HFS-compatible. $40. MacMaster Sys¬
tems, 939 E, El Camino Real, #122, Sunnyvale, CA 94087.
NCP (Sep 86)

FlashBack is a utility to backup HFS hard disks onto floppies. A
144 unique graphic display of the HFS directory facilitates file
selection. The program can handle files larger than 8QQK
$59,95. Mainstay, 28611B Canwood St., Agoura Hills, CA
91301. NCP (Nov 86)

Glue adds a print-to-disk capability to many programs. ImageSaver
4444 installs as printer driver, Viewer allows copying and printing
of Glue files. Handy utility for desktop publishers. $49,

Solutions, Box 989, Montpelier, VT 05602. NCP (Dec 86)
Hard Disk Util uses patch files to allow users to mount and run
4444 specified programs on their hard disks. The list of patches is
constantly expanding. $89.95, FWB Software, 2040 Polk
St,, San Francisco. CA 94109. NCP
HFS Backup ranks as one of the preferred hard disk backup
4444 utilities. Backup by file/folder or fast changes. Backup
specifications can be saved as templates. Good graphic
interface. Reliable program. $49.95. PCPC, 6204 Benjamin
Rd, Tampa, FI 33614. NCP (Dec 86)

HFS Locator Plus is the essential HFS desk accessory. It can
4444 search for a file by name or date of creation, create folders,
move files from one folder to another, set a program to
launch while in an application, $34,95, PBI Software, 1111
Triton Dr., Foster City, CA 94404. NCP (Sep 86)

Mac Disk Catalog II is a utility that will quickly organize a
4444 moderate size disk library. Easy to use with powerful
reporting and label-making features, $49,95, New Canaan
Microcode, 136 Beech Rd., New Canaan, CT 06S40. NCP
(Dec 85)

MacFlow is a design tool created for programmers. Traditional
m flowcharting symbols are linked together, and a symbol can
be connected to a separate flowchart file. Symbols can't be
edited, precluding using MacFlow for other applications,
$125, Mainstay, 5211-B Derry Ave., Agoura Hilts, CA
91301. NCP (Jan 87)

MacInUse tracks time spent in applications and saves info as text
44444 tile. Installs on any disk, works in background. MFS, HFS
compatible. Templates included for MacWr/te, MS Word,
Mo I tip Ian and Excef Extremely valuable for tax purposes,
client records, etc, VI.0. $49. SoftView, 4820 Adohr Lane,
Camarillo, CA 93010. NCP (Jan 87)

MacLabeler lets users instantly index and print labels for all the
disks in a burgeoning collection. Choose border type and
orientation of your label; index by folder or document.
Starter set of labels is included. $49,95. Ideaform, PO Box
1540, Fairfield, IA 52556. CP (Prem)

MacLInk lets users transfer data between Macs and PCs. Can do
444 special format transfers such as 1-2-3 to Muitiplan and
WordStar to Mac Write. Contains both Mac and PC disks,
interface cable is optional. Has Mac and MS-DOS disks,
$125, $155 with S-ft interface cable. DataViz, 16 Winfield
St., Norwalk, CT 06855. NCP

MacNosy is a global disassembler. A very advanced user can use
44444 this program to look into the code of virtually any program.
This advanced tool can take you places no other Mac
program could dream of going IF you have the skill to guide
it. The documentation is sparse. For pros only. $85. Jasik
Designs, 343 Trenton Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025. NCP
Mac + II lets you run Apple li software on the Mac. Emulation
444 speed is only 35 to 45 percent of a real Apple II, so graphics
especiafly suffer. Games also run slow. Runs AppleWorks
(Apple II integrated software). Good for ex-Apple II owners
who have large software collections. $149.95. Meacom, PO
Box 272591, Houston, TX 77277. CP
MacQwerty is a set of three keyboard utility programs. Reconfi-
«« gure allows users to assign any character to any key.
Standard sets up a normal qwerty keyboard and Dvorak
changes the key arrangement to the very efficient Dvorak
layout. $35. Paragon Courseware, 4954 Sun Valley Rd., Del
Mar, CA 92014. NCP (Jul 86)

Mac Serve converts a Mac and a hard disk into a disk and print
44444 server. Uses the AppleTalk network and is easily hooked up.
Users can partition the hard disk into multiple volumes. Runs
in the background, so users can work on all machines in the
network. $250. Requires 512+ or Mac XL. infosphere, 4730
SW Macadam. Portland, OR 97201. CP
MacZap is a three-part disk and memory utility. It can be used to
«« recover some damaged files and disks, compare disks,
analyze disk structure and make back-up copies of most
disks. $60. Micro Analyst, 2505 Roxmoor, Austin. TX
78723. NCR (Jan 86)

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myDIskLabelet is an excellent label making program. It can read
4444 directories, or use large or small icons, or anything else the
user desires. Comes with 54 precut labels on pinfeed paper,
HFS compatible. $44.95; with color printing ability (on the
ImageWriter II), $54.95. Williams and Macias, PO Box
19206, Spokane, WA 99219. NCP [Aug 86)

'Ncryptor is a simple, safe program that lets users password their
1414 files. The same program is used for encoding and decoding.
This is the best product in its category. $39.95. Mainstay,
2S611B Canwood St,, Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP
Packer is a simple utility that compresses files. It can be used to
4444 save disk space and also protect files. Typical space savings
range from 20 to 50% depending on the original file type
and size. This is the best program of its type so far, $29,
Bobbing Software, 67 Country Oaks Dr., Buda, TX 78610.
NCP (Juri 86)

Packlt III is an essential utility. Primarily used to temporarily
14441 "glue" files together, it can also compress and eno r ypt.
Feeware. $10, $10 for printed manual. Harry R. Chesi^y,
1850 Union St,, San Francisco, CA 94123. NCP (Jan S/i
PC to MAC and BACK has both Mac and MS-DOS disks. This
444 program efficiently transfers text and other data between
PCs and Macs, The documentation is excellent. Does special
format transfers such as WordStar to MacWrite. includes a
cable for direct Mac to PC connections. $149.95, dilithium
Press, 8285 SW Nimbus, Beaverton. OR 97005, NCP
Quick & Dirty Utilities, Volume One is a disk chock full of the
44444 handiest programs you have ever bought, included are a
super disk cataloguer, a desk accessory mover and more.
Several desk accessories Including a menu bar clock and a
terminal are on the disk. $39.95, Dreams of the Phoenix, PO
Box 10273, Jacksonville, FL 32247, NCP (Nov 85)

Switcher is Andy Hertzfeld's contribution to Mac productivity. This
44444 program lets users run several programs at once (up to 8 on
a ^megabyte or larger machine). Switching between the
programs is near instantaneous. Requires 512K+, $19.95
from Apple, free from BBSs, Included with some third-party
applications. Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cuperti¬
no, CA 95014, NCP

Tempo is a desk accessory that allows most Mac commands to be
4444 intelligently recorded and played back. Capabilities include
pausing, conditional branching, time functions, input testing
and macros that work between applications. $99. Affinity
Micro Systems, 1050 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80302, NCP
(Jul 86)

TMON is the debugger for the Mac. This isn't open to question.
44444 TMON is simply the best. Comes with the latest version of
Darin Adler's Extended User Area $100. ICOM Simulations,
626 Wheeling Rd., Wheeling, IL 60090. NCP
TurtoCharger 2,0 rev* D is a RAM cache utility for 512K and
44414 larger. Works on most hard disks and Mac XLs. Dramatically
improves any program you use that heavily accesses the
disk, like /VlacPa/nt. $69.95. Microsystems, PO Box 1249,
capitola. CA 95010. NCP (Jan 87)

Tv rba Down lead is a desk accessory designed specifically to
44444 increase the speed of Xmodem data transfers from national
databases to your Mac. Speed increases range upward from
50% to over 300% at 2400 baud, $39.95, Mainstay,
2861 IB Canwood St, Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP
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II In a Mac is a graphically oriented Apple II emulator with unique
Ml features, such as text and graphics copy from Apple screen
to Mac Clipboard, 40 column screen is too small, SO column
better. Suffers speed probiems associated with 'Virtual
machine' 1 emulation. $69. Miero-W Distributing, 13428
Route 23, Butler, NJ 07405. CP
TypeNow is a desk accessory that allows the Mac and ImageWriter
4444 to function as an electronic typewriter. Type can be placed
into blanks in complex forms easily. Typing can be recorded
and played back, $39,95, Mainstay, 28611B Canwood St.
Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCR (Jan 86)

LANGUAGES

Aztec C is a C language that will appeal to users with a UNIX
till background. It uses many UNIX conventions and in the more
expensive versions comes with standard UNIX utilities,
including the VI editor. $199 basic system, $299 develop¬
ment system, $499 commercial system. Manx Software
Systems, PO Box 55, Shrewsbury, NJ 07701. NCR (May 86)
MacAsm Is a software development system that allows programs
444 to be written in assembly language. Programmers can
assemble, edit and test software, and an integrated re¬
source compiler lets independent applications run from their
own icons, $125. Mainstay, 28611B Canwood St, Agoura
Hiils, CA 91301, NOP

Mac C is a good, highly Mac-oriented implementation of this
popular development language. Assembler and linker built-
in, $425. Consulair, 140 Campo Dr. r Portola Valley. CA
94025. NCR

MacExpress is a development environment or shell. Programmers
m use it to save time and effort when developing standalone
applications for the Mac. Easy to use for those with a strong
technical background, $195. ALSoft, PO Box 927, Spring, TX
773S3, NCR (Feb 86)

Mac Forth is an implementation of the popular Forth programming
4444 language. Level 1 is a simple, introductory version. Level 2
supports the Mac Toolbox fully. Level 3 extends the lan¬
guage to ailow standalone applications, $149 (Level 1),
$249 (Level 2), $499 (Level 3). Creative Solutions, 4701
Randolph Rd., Rockville, MD 20852. NCR
Mach II is a multitasking implementation of Forth that allows Jocal
4444 variables and text files. Can create standalone applications.
Several windows can be up with different operations in each,
concurrently. $99.95. Requires 512K. Palo Alto Shipping,
PO Box 7430, Menlo Park, CA 94026. NCR (Apr 86)
Macintosh 68(100 Development System is a fairly traditional
4444 assembly language package. The two-disk set provides an
editor (Ed/t), an assembler, a linker, an executive and a
resource compiler. $195. Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani
Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. NCR
Macintosh Pascal is Apple Computer's version of this very popular
444 programming language. Loaded as it is with innovative
teaching features, this interpreter is an excellent introduc¬
tion to Pascal. The documents are mostly references, get a
good tutorial textbook. $125, Apple Computer, 20525
Mariani Ave., Cupertino. CA 95014. CP
MacSchome is a LISP dialect with 'artificial intelligence" capabili-
444 ties. Has a large appetite for RAM, Interpreted language with
Toolbox access limited to a small part of QuickDraw. $125.
Semantic Microsystems, 4470 S,W. Hail St., Beaverton, OR
97005, NCR (Jun 86)

Megamax C is an easy to use, full version of C, Has a compiler,
4444 linker, disassembler, editor and much more. Good for
beginners. Excellent documentation. $299.95. Megamax.
PO Box 851521, Richardson, TX 75085, NCP
Microsoft BASIC was the Mac's first programming language. This
4444 interpreter (it s not a compiler) now supports the Toolbox and
the whole Mac interface can be implemented in your
programs. For non prog rammers there are lots of programs
available to run. $150. Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way.
Redmond. WA 98052-6399. NCP

Microsoft Logo, from Microsoft's MacLibrary, written by LCSI. An
tin excellent implementation of Logo, taking full advantage of
the Mac s user interface. Uses three windows. Turtle looks
like a turtle, and its screen actions are very precise.
Windows can be resized and moved about. $124.95, Micro¬
soft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, NCP
QUED (Quality Editor for Dovolopors) is the ultimate source
4444 code editor. Loaded with useful and well thought out
features, it will make any programmer s life much easier. It
is not a word processor, however. $65. Paragon Courseware,
4954 Sun Valley Rd., Del Mar, CA 92014. NCP (Mar 86)
TML Database Toolkit is an ISAM type database that provides
MM fast and efficient administration of large data files in
applications developed with TML compiler. Supports open
multiple index files simultaneously. $89.95. TML Systems.
4241 Baymeadows Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32217. NCR (Dec
86 )

TML (MacLanguage Sorias) Pascal is a good Pascal compiler,
44444 capable of producing standalone programs. Can use most
existing Lisa Pascal programs with only slight modification.
Requires 512K. $99,95 TML Systems, PO Box 361626.
Melbourne, FL 32936. NCP (Jun 86)

TML Source Code Library shows how to write programs that use
ttttt custom definition routines, speech, serial drivers, split bars
and other topics. Provided on three 4G0K diskettes. Re¬
quires TML Pascal . $79.95, TML Systems, 4241 Baymea¬
dows Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32217, NCP (Dec 86)

ZBasIc is a fast interactive compiler capable of creating stand-
tttt alone applications that takes advantage of Mac s unique
features and abilities. Includes Edit , RMaker , and Macintafk
tools. Incomplete documentation. Requires 512K. $89.95.
Zedcor, 4500 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85712. NCP
(Dec 86)

EDUCATION

ChlpWIts is a combination game and teaching tool. Players create
44444 programs to maneuver robots through a set of 8 mazes. The
programs are written in CftfpWfts built-in icon-based pro¬
gramming language (IBOL). IBOL is a nearly perfect introduc¬
tion to programming for non programmers. $49.95. Brain-
Power, 24009 Ventura Blvd., Calabasas, CA 91302 NCP
DletMac is a database consisting of about 800 foods with
tttt nutritional information, from which to choose for planning
daily menus. The Modify Food Data option allows users to
customize and update data. Some on-screen help. $79.
Tess Data Systems, 17070 Red Oak Drive, Houston, TX
77090. CP (May 86)

KldsTlme is a package of five quality educational programs for
tttt children between the ages of 3 and 12. The programs all
have adjustable difficulty levels. Some use speech and one
is a nice introduction to musical notes. Sparse documenta¬
tion $49.95. Great Wave Software, PO Box 5847 Stanford,
CA 94305. CP (Oct 86)

MacChemlstry is a two-disk set consisting of a titration program,
444 a periodic table program. MacNest (a scrapbook with index¬
ing), and a disk of MacPaint files. MacNest is of general
appeal. $145. Fortnum, 31 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra
Mad re, CA 91024, NCP

MacEdge and MacEdge II each contain 8 reading or math drill
ttt programs for basic skills. Programs follow one of three
formats, a bit contrived. Contrivances are design flaws —
they require learning format as well as skill. $49.95 each.
Think Educational Software, 16 Market St., Potsdam, NY
13676. CP

MacStronomy is a good package for novice sky watchers. Has
444 expandable database of sky objects that can be customized
by the user. New version is very fast. $75, Etlon Software,
PO Box 649, Lafayette. CO 80026. CP (Apr 86)

MacType offers structured typing instruction. Can teach both
tttt standard and Dvorak keyboards. Features include certifi¬
cates for reaching certain ievefs. Can be used in a multistu-

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dent environment. $49.95. Palantir Software. 12777 Jones
Rd., Houston. TX 77070. CP

MastefType is proof that learning to type can be fun. In this
m arcade-style action game words descend from four corners
towards the center ship; the user must type them correctly.
Features 18 skill levels, tracks errors, recommends lessons
and provides comparison scores $49.95. Mindscape, 3444
Dundee Rd P Northbrook. IL 60062, CP
NotePro is an educational package that teaches users to organize
and make best use of their notes. Consists of five well
designed parts, which can be used individually or as a
whole $59.95. Learning Skills. PO Box 8038. Reno, NV
89507. NCP (Jul 86)

Score Improvement System for the SAT Is a no-nonsense drill
MM and practice session covering practice tests, vocabulary,
reading comprehension, math and quantitative compari¬
sons. On-line tutoring for wrong answers. $99.95. Hayden,
600 Suffolk St.. Lowell, MA 01854. CP (May 86)

Speed Reader II builds skills sequentially to develop faster, more
441 efficient reading and Improve retention. Scores are kept,
and can be graphed. High school level selections included,
other levels available on data disks $69.95, Davidson &
Associates, 3135 Kashiwa St., Torrance, CA 90505. CP?
(Apr S6)

ToIIstar | & II are Mac astronomy programs. Have extensive
Hilt databases, quick sky plotting and can locate specific
objects. Level II has southern hemisphere star table, Messi¬
er objects, $49.95 {level I), $79.95 (level II). Spectrum
HoloByte, 1050 Walnut, Boulder, CO 80302. NCP (Apr 86)
Turbo Turtle is a turtle graphics program primarily designed as a
4444 learning tool for children, Uses Logo commands for graph¬
ics, but is not a full Logo implementation. Simple to use.

good introduction to Logo for young children. $59.95,
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell,' MA 01854. CP

ENTERTAINMENT

A Mind Forever Voyaging is a departure in text adventure games.
4444 It has a more extensive vocabulary and a more involved story
than most of the genre. The story here is gripping, but there
are only a few puzzles to solve. Requires 512K+. $44,95.
Infocom, 125 CambridgePark Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140,
CP (Apr 86)

Airborne is a classic arcade-style game with 'rear 1 sound effects.
444 The player defends against an assault from flying enemies.
Game noises digitized from actual recordings add to the
game. $34,95. Silicon Beach, PO Box 261430. San Diego,
CA 92126. CP

Alter Ego simulates the entire lifetime of a fictional character. The
444 players reaction to each multiple-choice event shapes the
character's future relationships, job, health, etc. Spectacu¬
lar the first time you play; after that there are too many
similarities to previous characters. $59.95. Activision, PO
Box 7287, Mountain View, CA 94039. CP (June 86)

The Ancient Art of War gives users a chance to refight some
44444 famous campaigns on both strategic and tactical levels.
Campaigns can also be designed from scratch. Very play¬
able, addicting game Requires 512K+ Mac. $49,95. Bro-
derbund, 17 Paul Dr., San Rafael, CA 94903. CP (Apr 86)
Arobon pits the forces of Light against Dark in a quest to gain
44444 control of five Power Points on a checkerboard grid. The
shifting cycles of squares' colors keeps the balance of power
ever-changing. One or two players. $44.95. Electronic Arts,
2755 Campus Dr.. San Mateo, CA 94403. CP (Oct. 86)

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Balance of Power is the world's first computer peacegame. This
44444 simulation allows players to become either the President of
the United States or General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
Extraordinary artificial intelligence routines and general play
make this a classic. $54.95, Mindscape. 3444 Dundee Rd..
Northbrook. IL 60022. CP (Prem)

Borrowed Tim© casts players as detectives who have to solve their
mi own murder—before it happens. This game requires players
to think and act like a detective to solve the game. Good
sentence parser, sketchy Mac interface, $44.95. Activision.
PO Box 72S7, Mountain View, CA 94039. CP (May 86)
Bridge 4.0 provides three other players and the cards for a game
44 of rubber bridge. It s an average (Goren) bidder and a less
than good card player. $29.95. Artworx Software. 150 N.
Main St. Fairport, NY 14450. CP (Sep 86)

Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True is a graphic adventure that
44444 breaks new ground. Innovative use of the Mac interface in
truly playable and exciting game, A great introduction to
graphic adventure games $49.95, Mindscape, 3444 Dun¬
dee Rd. h Northbrook, IL 60062. CP (Jan 86)

Dinner at light is a useful recipe filing system that includes a
mi collection of recipes from a nationwide sampling of restau¬
rants. Users enter number of diners and program scales
recipes accordingly $59.95. Rubicon, 6300 La Calma Dr..
Austin, TX 78752. CP fJan 86)

Dungeon of Doom is a fairly standard, U/f/ma-type adventure
mi game of the pick-it-up. cut-'envdown variety. Fun, if you like
the type. Requires 512K, Version 4 is NFS compatible.
Shareware, $25. if you like it, John Raymonds, PO Box 13,
Pittstown, NJ 08867, NCR (Jan 87)

Enchanted Scepters is a surround sound graphic adventure
mi game. It has a limited vocabulary and virtually no story.

Offers extensive and varied scenes ^nd utilizes the Mac
interface to the fullest. A worthwhile adventure experience.
$39.95, Silicon Beach, PO Box 261430, San Diego, CA
92126. CP (May 86) (

Flight Simulator puts you at the controls of a small plane (prop or
4411 jet) and Jets you roam North America. As difficult as real
flying. Mac version has features not found on earlier
versions, including spotter aircraft. Not all features avail¬
able on 128K, $49.95, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way,
Redmond, WA 98052. CP

Fokker Triplane is about as near to flying as you can get seated in
mi front of a computer. Very realistic simulation and excellent
graphics. Well designed and implemented. $59.95. Bulle-
seye Software, PO Drawer 7900, Incline Village, NV 89450,
CP ^[Feb 86)

Gato puts players in command of an American submarine in World
44444 War II, This superb simulation game uses all of the Mac's
graphic capabilities to really make you feel that 'you are
there/' $39.95. Spectrum Holobyte, 1050 Walnut St., Boul¬
der, CO 80302. CP (Nov 85)

Grand Slam is an absorbing and realistic tennis simulation game,
4444 Practice or play tournament against Mac-controlled players
with different styles and abilities on four different surfaces,
512K or Mac Plus. $49.95. Infinity Software, 1331 61st St.,
Emeryville, CA 94608. CP (Nov 86)

Gypsy is a computerized, customizable Ouija board. More than just
«« a software package, users get a pasteboard playing surface
and a Mouse Mover with 99 ball bearings. $39.95. Magnum,
21115 Devonshire St., Chatsworth, CA 91311, CP (Prem)
Lad© Runner is a 150-screen action-strategy challenge that
wit requires a joystick for truly effective play. Move around a
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MINIFINDERS

to trap pursuers. Build your own challenges. $39.95, Broder-
bund r 17 Paul Dr, r San Rafael, CA 94903. CP
IMacChallonger lets players land a space shuttle. The graphics of
%%% this flight simulator are crude and it's a hard machine to fly.
but it s also a lot of fun. Lets you record your landing attempt
and then review it from any of ten camera angles. $49.95.
Aegis Development, 2210 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA
90403. CP (Feb 86)

MacGolf is a dynamic simulation of real golf. Players have a
choice of courses and difficulty levels. Superb playability
makes this a must for all golfers and gamers. Requires
512K+, $59.95. Practical Computer Applications, 1305
Jefferson Highway, Champlin, MN 55316. CP (May 86)
Macinooga ChooChoo is a set of electronic toy trains. Run on the
|4t| layouts provided, or create your own, as complex as you
wish. Create scenery using built-in tools or import fancier
MacPaint scenery, $39. Fortnum, 31 W. Sierra Madre Blvd.,
Sierra Madre, CA 91024. NCR (Apr 86)

MacVegas contains seven complete casino-style games: bacca-
m rat, blackjack, craps, keno, poker, roulette and slots. All are
fairly standard, but generally well designed. House rules can
be selected from a menu. The games are all fun to play, but
not particularly absorbing. $59. Videx, 1105 Northeast
Circle Blvd., Corvallis, OR 97330. CP
Malta Millions is a fascinating business simulation in which the
44444 player competes against the computer to take control of five
companies, then run them profitably. Appeals to the closet
capitalist in all of us. $49.95. Scarborough Systems, 55
South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591. CP
MazeWars r isran interactive, multiplayer game to be played on
m% AppleTalk or through a modem link. Chase opponents
through a four level maze. Smooth animation, slick graphics
and good playability make this a natural for telecommunica¬
tions fans, Requires 512K+, AppleTalk or Hayes compatible
modem, $49.95 MacroMind. 1029 W. Wolfram, Chicago, iL
60657. NCR (Nov 86)

Mind Over Mac features five games. Entertainment for the whole
till family. Good graphics paired with synthesized sound and on¬
screen help. $49.95, Think Educational Software, 16 Market
St., Potsdam, NY 13676. CP (Feb 86)

Mind Prober is a demonstration of a very simple expert-style
44 system. How well do you know your friends? Answer certain
statements as either true or false, and the computer prints a
3- to 5-page psychological profile of subject in business,
stress, sex and other situations. $50, Human Edge Soft¬
ware, 2445 Faber PI., Palo Alto, CA 94303. CP
The Mist is an all-text "interactive novel” based on a short story by
444 Stephen King, Vivid graphic and sometimes gory descrip¬
tions compensate for the game's muddled sentence parser.
The story is involving, while the game is overly lock-step.
$39,95, Mindscape, 3444 Dundee Rd., Northbrook, IL
60062. CP {May 86)

NewGammon is animated backgammon that wrli challenge even
«« good players. Features include variable skill levels and
strategies and options to play the Mac or watch the Mac play
itself. An arcade-like high speed mode is included. $39.95.
Newsoft. PO Box 4035, Newport Beach, CA 92661. CP
Orblter puts a real space shuttle on the Mac screen A multitude of
44444 controls, intelligent on-board computer with speech capabil¬
ities, real-time graphics and 16 distinct missions help this
program succeed as both a game and a simulation. $49.95.
Spectrum HoloByte, 1050 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302,
NCP (Jul 86)

Orbquest is a fantasy role-playing adventure with better-than-
tm average puzzles and an excellent sense of humor. Not as
sophisticated as some, but a good value. $49.95 QWare,
PO Box 850415, Richardson, TX 75085. CP (Dec 86)
Pinball Construction Set lets users create their own pinball
mi games, as elaborate or as easy as desired. Uses MacPaint
for backgrounds and has lifelike sounds (on 512K+ Macs),
No documentation to speak of, $40, Electronic Arts. 2755
Campus Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403 CP (Jan 86)

Psion Chess is as good a micro chess player as you'll find. This
uni 1984 World Micro Champion makes superb use of graphics
and the Mac interface. Switch between 6 languages for a
touch of spice, $59.95, Psion, 40 Lindeman Dr., Trumbull,
CT 06611 CP (Mar 86)

Real Poker is five-card draw against five other players with Old
44444 West names, distinct personalities and playing styles, in a
saloon setting. Dealing and play are very fast. Game
evaluates your hand $39 95. Henderson Associates, 980
Henderson Ave,. Sunnyvale, CA 94086. CP
Sargon HE is a chess program with 9 levels of play, problem-
tm solving modes, take back, hint, etc . Easy Play blocks Sargon
from stealing search time during player's move, effectively
doubling number of levels. Disk stores 107 classic games
for review and replay. $49.95, Hayden, 600 Suffolk St,,
Lowell, MA 01854. CP {Mar 86)

Shanghai challenges players to clear a board of all 144 tiles, by
44444 matching pairs of mah-jongg tiles and removing them.
Terrific strategic options plus the ability to randomly gener¬
ate new game boards keep this one fresh. $44.95 Activi¬
sion. PO Box 7287, Mountain View, CA 94039. CP (Oct 86)
Skyfox is a sophisticated 3D shoot-em-up. You're fighting tanks,
444 planes, and enemy cities floating in the sky. Fast graphics,
good sound, slick, on-board attack computer and many
levels of difficulty will keep fans of this genre happy for
hours. $39.95. Electronic Arts, 2755 Campus Dr., San
Mateo, CA 94403. CP

Smash Hit Racquetball is an accurate and entertaining Simula-
44444 tion of a day on the courts. Digitized sound adds to the
realism, includes a hard disk install, unusual for a game.
The low price makes this the perfect Mac gift. $14,95.
Primera Software, 33 Norwood Ave., Kensington, CA 94707,
CP (Dec 86)

Strategic Conquest is large scale, strategic conflict on the Mac.
tm This very involved war game will be enjoyed by those who like
this genre. $49.95. PB! Software. Ill Triton Dr., Foster City,
CA 94404. CP (Dec 85)

Suspended is Infocom's most unique text game. Using a small
4444 plastic board and six markers, the player keeps track of six
uniquely designed robots which check on damage to a
complex's machinery and report back what they perceive as
the problem. $49.95. Infocom, 125 CambridgePark Dr.,
Cambridge, MA 02140. CP

lass Times In Tone Town is a slightly off-the-wall graphic
ttt adventure in which you need a flashy hairdo and a jumpsuit
before you can get anywhere, and you pay for things with
guitar picks Decent puzzles, with a sense of humor,
$39.95. Activision, 2350Bayshore Pkwy, Mountain View, CA
94043. CP (Jan 87)

The Toy Shop is a construction kit for building 20 different working
4444 model toys. Some parts can be customized, Manual gives
clear instructions, but many toys are too complex for a child
to build. $64.95, Broderbund, 17 Paul Dr., San Rafael, CA
94903, CP (Nov 86)

Ultima II players take the part of a character who travels through
tm land, sea, air, space and even time itself in a quest to find
and defeat the evil sorceress Minax. Good Mac interface;
excellent game; confusing graphics, $59.95. Sierra, PO Box
485, Coarsegotd, CA 93614 CP
Ultima HI allows up to four characters to cooperate to explore the
44444 vast wilderness of Sosaria; dungeons, oceans, and the
Moon Gates to help solve the adventure. $59.95, Origin
Systems, 340 Harvey Rd.. Manchester, NH 03103. CP
Winter Games lets up to eight players compete against each other
4441 in Olympic events including figure skating, bobsledding,
biathlon and ski-jumping. Excellent animation, good graph¬
ics. good theme music. $39. Epyx, 1043 Kiel Ct., Sunnyvale,
CA 94089. CP (Mar 86)

Wizardry is an outstanding dungeon exploration adventure pitting
44444 a party of up to six characters against the guardian monsters
of the evil wizard Werdna. Capture his amulet to earn your
reward Even after solving the game, you'll want to go back

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MINIFINDERS

into the dungeon. $59.95, Sir-Tech, 6 Main St. r Qgdens-
burg, NY 13669, CP

WordPlay is a word game with over 50 crossword puzzles for
different levels of expertise. User friendly, It offers on¬
screen Help menus. A Work mode allows development of
new puzzles for the creative. $49.95. Palantir, 12777 Jones
Rd,, Houston, TX 77070. NCR (Mar 86)

Xyphtis is a role-playing game pitting four characters (fighters or
wizards) against multiple scenarios that grow increasingly
harder. Excellent Mac interface and icon control. $39.95.
Penguin, PO Box 311, Geneva. 1L 60134. CP
Zork II is where the adventure continues in the underground
4^444 empire. A wandering wizard keeps things interesting, though
there's a way to beat him if you persevere. $44.95. Infocom,
125 CambridgePark Dr,, Cambridge, MA 02140. CP
Ziirk III is the final chapter in the trilogy. Players come up against
m the ultimate enemy—the Dungeonmaster himself. More
closed-ended than previous Zorks. $44.95. Infocom, 125
CambridgePark Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140. CP

MUSIC

ConcdiiWare^ is an enhanced version of Concert Ware. Has
4444 different instruments and can use any four of a set of eight
at any point in a piece, Can read and use ConcertWare and
Mus/C Works files. $69.95. Great Wave Software, PO Box
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Deluxe Music Construction Set is a good general purpose music
4444 program. An active piano keyboard and instant audio feed'
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Listen is an educational tool for ear training It has both a piano
4444 keyboard and a guitar fretboard for the student to input
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some beautiful sounds. $69. Imaja, PO Box 638, Middle-
town. CT 06457, CP (Jan 87)

Performer is a strong contender for the high-end of the MIDI
4444 sequencer market. Only those experienced with MIDI should
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for editing. No direct track or segment looping. $295. Mark
of the Unicorn. 222 Third St., Cambridge, MA 02142. CP
Professional Composer is aimed at music professionals. Pro-
444 duces performance-quality sheet music; has only limited
playback facilities. $495. Mark of the Unicorn, 222 Third
St.. Cambridge. MA 02142. CP (Prern)

Studio Session consists of two programs, and Editor and a Player,
4444 that produce music with six voices of digitized sound.
Although the program is superb, documentation and techni¬
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Shingle Creek Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN 55430. CP (Dec 86)

HARDWARE & ACCESSORIES

Ergotron is a Mac (and external drive) holder that allows a full
4444 range of swiveling and tilting. Very strong, this well made
unit is also very easy to use. $99.95, Ergotron, PO Box
17013, Minneapolis, MINI 55417.

Hard Disk 2D is Apple's entry in the exploding hard disk sweep-
4444 stakes. This quiet, small unit uses Apple s new Hierarchical
File System (NFS). The lack of utility software (spooler,
backup, security) is its only drawback. $1199, Apple Com¬
puter, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. (Feb 86)
HyperDrke HD20 is an internal 20'megabyte hard disk. It only
4444 adds about 5 pounds to the Mac s weight. Full featured unit
with spooler, security program and backup utility. It could
use memory a bit more efficiently. $2195 installed in a
512K+ Mac, General Computer Company. 215 First St,.
Cambridge, MA 02142.

Macbottom 20 is a small, external unit that sits under the Mac
4444 and connects to the external drive port (not SCSI), Good.

reliable, but noisy unit. Requires 512K+. $1595 PCPC,
6204 Benjamin Rd., Tampa, FL 33614,

MacCharlles components slip around the Mac and convert it into
4444 an IBM PC clone. Amazingly, it works well. The enlarged
keyboard has a few bugs but is a joy to use $795 with 256K
RAM and one floppy drive, $995 with 640K RAM and two
floppy drives, Dayna Communications, 50 S. Main St, Salt
Lake City, UT 84144. (Dec 85)

Maclntizer is a graphics tablet and absolute positioning device
that replaces the mouse. Various scales are possible. $599-
GTCO Corp., 7125 Riverwood Dr,, Columbia, MD 21046.
MacNtfty Sound Digitizer turns ordinary analog sound input into
digital waveforms which can then be manipulated using the
SoundCap software it comes with. Capable of truly stunning
effects. Requires 512K+. $129.95. Kette Group, 6860
Shingle Creek Pkwy., Minneapolis, MN 55445.

Mac Nifty Stereo Music System converts Mac sounds to sirnulat-
stereo by splitting highs and lows between two speakers.
User controls bass, treble, balance, and volume. $79.95,
Kette Group, 6860 Shingle Creek Pkwy., Minneapolis, MN
55445.

MacNIfty Switch allows any port on your Mac to connect to two
4444 peripherals. Turn the knob to switch between the two
devices, $34.95, Kette Group, 6860 Shingle Creek Pkwy,,
Minneapolis, MN 55445.

MacTablet is a stylus-driven graphics tablet. Users can easily
4444 sketch or trace art using this absolute-positioning device.
Has a working area the size of the Mac screen. Allows
concurrent use of the mouse. $495. Summagraphics Corp ,
777 State St, Extension. Fairfield, CT 06430. (Jan 86)
MacVfston is a digitizer that uses an ordinary video camera for
4444 input. Capable of extremely fine results and special effects.
Easy to use and well documented. $399.95. Koala, 3100
Patrick Henry Dr,, Santa Clara, CA 95052,

Magic is both the most intimidating and easiest to use digitizer
4444 available. Use a regular video camera for input. Once the
crowded screen is mastered, any effect is possible. $399,
$549 with camera. New Image Technology, 10300 Green-
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Mouse Mover is a mouse pad-type surface that snaps on to the
ttttl bottom of the mouse like a roller skate, freeing it up to glide
over desk or mouse pad with ease. 99 tiny bail bearings at
three strategic points. Mouse glides faster and saves on
mouse wear and tear. $19.95, Magnum Software, 21115
Devonshire St,, Chatsworth, CA 91311.

MottseTop is unquestionably the cutest mouse cover on the
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eyes make your mouse look authentic, $5,49; $5.95 for
MouseTop wearing wire-frame glasses. H&H Enterprises, PO
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Moustrak is a fabric covered foam mousing pad. It will increase
4444 the efficiency of your mouse while helping to keep it clean.
Pad comes in a variety of colors. Particularly useful in the
typical office desk top environment. $10. Moustrak, 3047
St. Helena Hwy,, St. Helena, CA 94574.

NoLabelSystam is a plastic permanent labeling system in which
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disk. The tabs stick out of the case slightly, making them
easier to read while in the drive. $19.45. Weber & Sons,
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PhoneNet is an AppleTalk-compatible network. Network can be up
444 to 3000' in length. In-place unused phone cabling can be
used for network, and can be combined with AppleTalk on
same network. $49 per node. Fatal Ion Computing, 1442A
Walnut St., #64, Berkeley, CA 94709. (Dec 86)
ThunderScan replaces the ribbon cartridge in an ImageWriter,
4444 which is required to use it. Laser scans art that can be run
through the ImageWriter, producing high-quality digitized
images. The images can be manipulated as they are created
or afterward, $229. Thunderware. 210rinda Way , Orinda, CA
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166MACU5ER JANUARY 1987

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Sony Disks.SS-S130/DS-$2.00

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without

Compromise

For the performance oriented
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Hard Disk Util $89-95

Uploads most protected software
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Partitions any HFS volume into
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...LATITUDES

(continued from page 77)
for MapMaker. Category name files
may be created on any text editor
with each entry followed by a car¬
riage return. Data value files, such as
those created on spreadsheets like
Excel or Multiplan, must be format¬
ted with tabs separating the columns
of numbers.

The population data added to our
sample map was imported from Data
Disk # l. To make sense of this data,
however, you must also import the
proper category names. These are
stored in their own file. Once these
arc imported, the data screens arc
filled in and category names arc
shown automatically on the pull¬
down menu. As with the bound¬
aries, the county population figures
are organized bv federal ID number,

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 CLICKS

Although l have referred to this
program as a digital atlas, MapMaker
will not give Rand-McNally any
sleepless nights. Useful as they arc,
MapMaker maps lack detail. In a
world projection or a map of a large
region, where any map will sacrifice
some detail, this is not a great defi¬
ciency. Rut in maps of smaller areas,
the level of detail does not rise
commensurately with the larger scale
of the image. Todays microcomput¬
ers do not have the resolving power
to display atlas quality images.

Our sample map is not exactly a
precision geographical instrument.
But in fairness it must be stated that
this subject was chosen because it
would provide a particularly stern
test of MapMaker 3 $ capabilities.
When mapping areas where bound¬
aries have been surveyed with great¬
er geometric precision, like Zip
Code zones, MapMaker images are
more accurate.

In any case, the image accom¬
plishes its purpose: providing a
framework for the illustration of in¬
formation in a meaningful context.
Boundary and data files have been
integrated by MapMaker into a cohe¬
sive whole.

COLOR MY WORLD

Polychromatic Macs are (with
some exceptions) still in the future
but a few programs arc already in-

* Meat, businesslike labels

- Shows dale, space, and MFS or HFS

* Puts H FS i n dicator on edge of disk

* Shows folders with files listed beneath

- You choose whic h way 1 o one nt I abe I

* Prints a complete directory of a disk!

* Shows H FS Fold er ne sti ng

Still Searching?

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MathWriter"

THE MASTER KEY TO
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WITH THE MACINTOSH'"

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THE ADVENTURE BEGINS...

SPACE SHUTTLE SIMULATION

* Command the space shuttle launch, orbit
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* Perform any of 18
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* Dock with the
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• Walk in space in the Manned
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• View the Earth and other orbiting objects

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Intelligent Graphics for
Intelligent Solutions

design

Imagine a drawing program that provides structured
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A program that lets you connect graphical objects visually
and logically, redrawing the relationships as necessary.

A program that lets you develop successively detailed
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Now add full text capability, imported graphics from other
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...LATITUDES

corporating the capability to pro¬
duce color output. Maps are a natu¬
ral for such treatment and
MapMaker makes the addition of
color simple and easy.

ASSIGN COLORS allows YOU to
specify the color to be associated
with various map elements. Similar¬
ly, when you ASSIGN SYMBOLS or
patterns vou may link a color to
your choices. At present, color out¬
put is possible only with an Image-
Writer II with a color ribbon. While
color printing can seem painfully
slow, the results are outstanding.
MapMakcr*$ maps seem to come
alive.

MapMaker also supports the
LaserWriter, but only through the
DRAFT MAP option. The LaserWriter
will reproduce black and white Map-
Maker maps exactly as they appear
on the screen. LaserWriter FONT
SUBSTITUTION and SMOOTHING
commands will have no effect.

When printing maps with the
“single sheet” option activated on
the Print dialog box, after the “Insert
Next Sheet” alert box was deployed
on the screen, the Wrist watch did
not revert to the Arrow. Normally,
control buttons cannot he activated
with the Wristwatch on screen, but
such is not the ease here. (My copy
of MacPaint behaves similarly.) Sim¬
ply point and dick OK with the
Wristwatch and printing proceeds
normally.

MAP MAKER'S ROAD MAP

Although it suffers from a certain
lack of visual eloquence, the 63-
page, spiral-bound MapMaker man¬
ual contains most of the information
necessary to successfully navigate the
program. All important program
functions are covered but, unfortu¬
nately, neither clearly nor compre¬
hensively enough. So, sometimes
finding vour way is like driving
around with a roadmap that only
shows major highways. Overall, this
manual is an adequate introduction
to the program, but it is not an
exhaustive reference.

As an adjunct to the documenta¬
tion, Select Micro Systems provides
an on-line Help function. The pro¬
gram may be learned directly from
this function, without ever opening

172MACUSER JANUARY 1987

Introducing DataFrame XP,'
the SCSI hard disk that eclipses all others.

DataFrame’s superiority has been clear
since Apple chose it to introduce the speed
and performance of the Macintosh Plus.
And now, while other manufacturers are
still working to emulate our best selling
DataFrame 20, Super Mac Technology 741
is proud to introduce the second generation
hard disk that dearly outshines: DataFrame XP.

The fastest SCSI under the sun*

DataFrame XP’s advanced SCSI tech¬
nology delivers virtually twice the speed
of any other full SCSI drive—including
Apple’s recent release. Every program
runs faster. And the programs that make
frequent use of the disk run much faster.

Reliability that overshadows
all others.

DataFrame is far and away the critic’s
choice. The MACazine gave Data-

F ra me i t s h i g best rat itig. And Macworld
says “DataFrame was one of the few
completely trouble-free drives tested.”

Unbeatable reliability is the reason
SuperMac offers the only full one-year
warranty in the business.

A design so simple, it’s brilliant*

DataFrame XP comes with all the features
of the original DataFrame. Preformatted
for immediate set up and use, just stand
the XP beside your Mac and plug it in.
And it comes with free backup, print
spooler, and self-test software phis free
lifetime software upgrades.

DataFrame XP always stays coo!
because its vertical 4 chimney 1 design effi¬
ciently vents heat without use of a fan
(that’s why it’s quiet!). The XP sits beside
your Macintosh, not inside or under it, so
the drive won’t heat your system*

How to make your Mac shine*

Just add a DataFrame XP, Or upgrade
your existing DataFrame to XP perfor¬
mance. Both arc every bit the DataFrame
The MACazine called “the best buy for
a SCSI hard disk considering price,
product quality, performance, warranty
and technical support, ”

Compare the rest of the SCSI drives.
Then test the XP. And prepare for some¬
thing overpowering: A total eclipse.

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SUPERMAC

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BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES

WORLD WAR II SUBMARINE SIMULATION

Control speed, depth, heading
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Perform multiple
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Choose from 10
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Defensive/offensive enemy maneuvers
* Use navigational aids for enemy tracking

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C< 8S 11

BACKS UP PROTECTED
SOFTWARE.

Copy II Mac does more than just sector copy.
Its bit copy program has the built-in power and
flexibility to handle most protection schemes
automatically and supports single and double-
sided drives, (We update Copy II Mac as often
as needed to handle new protections; you as a
registered owner may update at any time for
$15 plus $3 s/h.)

RUNS PROTECTED
SOFTWARE FROM YOUR
HARD DISK.

Copy II Mac makes using your hard disk
(including the Apple hard disk-20) as
convenient as it should be. No longer will you
have to use the 3V^disk with some of the
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GIVE YOUR MAC
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Copy II Mac can even repair some damaged
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System Requirements: Macintosh or
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...LATITUDES

the manual. The on-line files appear
to be at least as complete as the
corresponding entries in the book.
And, in a few cases, there is informa¬
tion here that failed to make its way
into the written documentation. So,
if you have a question not fully
resolved hv the manual, check the
Help files.

ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD

At times MapMahcr seems a little
rough around the edges, like a gem
that has been artfully cut but still
needs a bit of polishing. Boundary
and data files could be better ar¬
ranged on the disks so that it is easier
to find them and use them; the
documentation could be improved;
the foibles still present in the inter¬
face need attention. Little things all,
but things that dim the luster of the
program.

On balance, however, these rela¬
tive difficulties do not undermine
the value of MapMaker. That it is
less than perfect in its first incarna¬
tion does not deter me from recom¬
mending it. After all, the true forte of
MapMaker is the correlation of data
variables with geographic constants.
And this is accomplished competent¬
ly and elegantly. Cartography and
geographic analysis have become
simple and affordable. ^

CARLOS DOMINGO MARTIN HZ IS A FRHE-
LANCK WRITER FROM QUEENS, NY.

MAPMAKER 4*

Overall Rating ■ ■ ■ ■ □

Follows Mac Interface ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Documentation ■ ■ ■ □ □

On Screen Help ■ ■ ■ ■ □

Performance ■ ■ ■ ■ □

Support ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Consumer Value ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Comments: A competent map generator
that greatly facilitates the geographical anal¬
ysis of data. Best Feature: Ease of use and
functionality, creates maps in minutes.
Worst Feature: Less than comprehensive
documentation. List Price: $295 retail.
Requires at least 512K. second drive rec¬
ommended. Published by Select Micro Sys¬
tems, 2717 Crescent Drive, Yorktown
Heights. NY 10598 (914) 245-4670. Not
copy protected.

174 MACUSER JANUARY 1987

3.5 Inch, 800K Drives

Only $195

Compatible with IIgs, //e, Macintosh and Laser 128!

Now you can add 800K of Apple
compatible storage to your Apple at
an affordable price. These 3.5 inch
drives are functionally identical to
Apples Unidisk 3.5 and Macintosh
drives but cost half as much!

Works with an
Apple II:

Our 3.5 inch drives connect to an
Apple //e, Apple II Plus, Apple IIgs,
or laser 128 via our "Universal Disk
Controller.” This remarkable interface
card allows you to connect two 3.5
inch drives for a total of 1.6 megabytes
of Apple Unidisk 3.5 compatible disk
storage.

Ideal Drives for IIGS

These are the ideal drives for Apple’s
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can even connect your current 5!4
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cables. (Our Universal Disk Controller
supports both 20 pin and DB-19 drive
connectors.)

Works with a
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These 3.5 inch drives directly connect
to a Macintosh Plus or Macintosh 512
enhanced computer through the

external drive port. No interface card
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Available Now!

Call today and order your 3.5 inch
disk drives. Find out just how
inexpensive it can be to add an
800K disk to your Apple!

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J IXCmPORATED

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(503) 244-5782

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please send me the 3.5 inch 800K drives

BOOK, 3.5 inch drive for Mac Pius, Macintosh 512
enhanced, Apple II Plus, //e, IIgs, or Laser 128.

(Sorry, not available for //c). SI95 & $10 s/h ($15 to
Canada, $50 overseas)

C Universal Disk Controller card. (Required to
connect 800K drives lo Apple II Plus, //e, I (us, and
Laser 128.) Controls 2 3.5 inch drives. Price includes
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And ship them to me at this street address ASAP:

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LaserWorks™vi.2

^ITake the most of your Laser¬
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LaserWorks" Template mode to trace
over existing material. LaserWorks
VL2 comes packed with new
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LaserWorks, the professional graphic
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EDO Communications, Inc,

63 Arnold Way

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176MACUSER JANUARY 1987

This is the Only Aspiring Young Professional
Wte Could Find That Had a Legitimate
Excuse for Not Using MacLightning.

To those of you who have made MacLightning™ the nation’s best-selling spell checker in just

six short months, we say thanks!

To those of you who, for one reason or
another, have not yet joined the ranks of our satis¬
fied users we introduce MacLightning version 2,0.
Now there can be no excuse!

When MacLightning made its debut early this
year it was the only “interactive” spelling checker
for the Macintosh. Thanks to Merriam Webster’s
Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, a 45,000-word
Thesaurus and a long list of upgrades, it still is.

Operating in either the interactive or non¬
interactive mode. MacLightning spell checks your
work at a blazing 75 + words per second.

This puts it light years ahead of the competition.

Also available from Target Software are

extensive dictionaries covering medicine, law and
a host of other technical fields.

So if you’d like more information, or the name
of a dealer near you, call Target Software toll-free.
You’ll never go wrong again.

MacLightning Version 2.0 - $99.95
Merriam Webster Thesaurus - $49.95
Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary - $99.95
Merriam Webster Legal Dictionary - $99.95

Target Software

National: 1-800-MAC-LITE (800-622-5483)

In Fla. (305) 252-0892

Target Software Inc. 14206 Southwest 136th Street, Miami, Florida 33186
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(?) MacBackup"

SX

This program is the answer for the Macintosh
professional in search of the premium copy
system. It makes "Master" copies of protected
software, is HFS compatible, moves "Masters"
safely to hard drives and is the fastest, most
reliable copy program on the market. 95

Also available:

SONY 3.5 DS Boxed

$18.95/10

SONY 3.5 DS Bulk

$14.90/10

1-800-482-4438

Outside New York

1-800-435-4438

In New York

Order by phone or mail. We accept MasterCard and Visa.
NY residents include sales tax. Shipping minimum S3.00

Roc Software, Inc., P,CX Box 4536, Ithaca NY 14852

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UDeEJufreagfis?

Macintosh #4 Apple
Macintosh ^ IBM pc
Connection

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Apple Version $60.00
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'Move SVLK, DIF and other data
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'Easy to Use - Complete instruc¬
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to make the connection with
modems or cables.

'2 diskettes - One for the Apple
or IBM and one for the Macintoch.
We also have a version to do IBM
to Appte transfers.

* Mac.Transfer includes a utility to
convert transferred files into a for¬
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Microsoft Fite, Omnis 3 and other
data bases.

'Fully HFS and MFS compatible.

*A Proven product. We have
been shipping Mac.Transfer for
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...DUNGEON

(continued from page 122)

Version 3 also has die added bo¬
nus of being able to screen dump to
your printer a map of the current
maze. Version 4 has a bug (or is it a
feature?) that makes this impossible,
thereby making navigating the
mazes even harder. Versions 1 or 2
have the disadvantage of not letting
you resurrect a character.

Version 4 is currently available
from national electronic services and
local BBSs. The file is longish
(180K) and requires about 30 min¬
utes to download at 1200 baud, so
you may want to check out BBSs or
friends first.

Now is definitely the time to start
enjoying D ofD — and to pay for it.
Raymonds says there will be no
shareware version 5. Instead, he
plans to market an improved, com¬
mercial version (sure to include digi¬
tized sound, lor one thing) of the
game, along with source code as a
programming example of using C in
the Mac interface. The combined
files would just be too big for tele¬
phone transmission. Registered us-
ers of the shareware game can up¬
grade to the commercial version.

One last warning: Dungeon of
Doom can be habit-forming. So
plan on lending off Air Devils and
Lizzogs well into the night, and for
many nights to come.

DAVE VALIULIS IS A MACINTOSH JUNKIE
AND AN EDITOR KOR A SAN FRANCISCO
TRADE MAGAZINE.

DUNGEON OF DOOM 0

Overall Rating

Follows Interlace
Printed Documentation
On-Screen Help
Perlormance
Support

Consumer Value

■ ■ ■ ■ □
■ ■ ■ ■ □

None

■ » □ □ □

■ ■ ■ ■ □

■ ■ □ □ □

Comments: Standard adventure game in
the Uitima-SBms genre Best Feature: Can
be played over and over without repeating.
Don't have to pay if you don't like it. Worst
Feature: Lack of documentation makes
learning frustrating — unless you Jike a
challenge. List Price: Shareware policy of
pay-if-you-Jike-it; $25. Requires 512K + ;
Version 4 is HFS compatible. Not copy
protected.

173MACUSER JANUARY 1987

PHOTON 20 PHOTON 30

$595.00 $79500

WARP 20 PHASER 800 TRANSPORTER 20 PHOTON 2001

$79500 $19900 $79500 $149500

TakeThe Money And Run.

How Quality Can Be Inexpensive.

Warp Nine Engineering is a manufacturer
of quality Macintosh prooucts. We sell these
products directly to you. We do not sell
through computer stores. This means our
prices are generally 40% less than computer
retailers.

Quality. Reliability. Ease Of Use.

We know quality is important to > 011 ,
therefore, it is even more important to us.
Every Warp product includes our Quality and
Assurance Report detailing each step of pro¬
duction and testing and signed by the person
in charge of that step.

Avoid hard drives that run hot. The hotter
the drive, the shorter the life. Because we
use a special fan, our drives are cool, quiet,
and reliable.

Each of our drives comes p re formatted*
This means your drive runs right from the
box. Just plug it in and you’re working in
minutes.

Better Support Than A Dealer.

With every Wa jp Nine product, you also
get a toll free Macintosh expert. We are
referring to our technical support team. Each
member has been hand picked and trained to
ive you the answers you need. If you have
een frustrated by poorly trained dealer sup¬
port, our technical experts will win a warm
place in your heart*

Run The Photon 20.

A 21Mb external SCSI hard drive. HFS
and MFS compatible. Supports all your
Macintosh software* Can daisy chain up 10
seven SCSI devises. MacPIus version. 5595*00
*5!2K with our PlusPort, $745*00

Run The Photon 30.

Our 31 Mb external SCSI hard drive. Faster
access and 50% more storage capacity than a
20Mb. Priced less most 20MBs, MacPIus
version. $795*00

*512K with our PiusPOrt. $945*00

Run The Warp 20,

A 21 Mb internal SCSI hard drive. Our
intelligent design and step-by-step manual
make installation very straightforward regard¬
less ofyounechniail expertise. MacPIus
version. $849*00

*5I2K with internal PlusPort. $795.00

Run The Phaser 800,

Whisper-quiet 800K double sided disk
drive. Compatible with 128K, 512K, MacPIus
and MFS, No hardware or software modifi¬
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80QK diskettes and will read and write to
them accordingly. Features push button and
automatic electronic ejection. Cable
included. All models* $199*00

Run The Transporter 20.

A 20Mb SCSI tape drive. Back up and
restore the valuable data from your hard drive
onto cassette tapes. Volume, nle-by-file, and
incremental back up. With the incremental
feature, back up daily files in as little as three
minutes. MacPIus version. $795.00
*5!2K with our PlusPort. $945.00

Run The Photon 2001.

A 21 Mb SCSI hard drive and a 20Mb tape
back up in one convenient unit. Will back up
a full 20Mb of data in under twelve minutes
or changes in vour files in as little as three
minutes. MacPIus version* $1495,00
*5I2K with our PlusPort. $1645*00

COMPARE US.

Photon 20 Photon 30 Low Down Dam Frame

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Hyperdrive

FX-20

Wari)

20

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Fan

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yqs

Yes

Avg. Seek
Time

65

58

65

65

65

65

65

66-85

SCST

Compatible

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

HFS

Compatible

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Internal/

External

External

External

External

External

External

External

Internal

Internal

Price

595.00

795*00

995.00

1095.00

1299,00

1195,00

795.00

1595,00

Two New Memory Upgrades
For The MacPIus.

Simply clip on with no modifications
necessary. Roih the DaiaRam and
Monsterftam are fully compatible with all
your software. Both come with our internal
piezo electric fan.

Data Ram-2 Mb upgrade* Expandable to 4Mb,

$299.00

MunsterRam-2,5Mb upgrade for a MacPIus
with an internal hard onve, $545*00

Introducing Our New
Software Products.

The Fullback—Called the best back up
program for the Mac. Backs up your hard
drive to floppy disks very quickly Volume,
file-by-file and incremental back up, $39,95

Print Sprint—A great print spooler. $29*95

Special Bundle Price—Buy any Warp
product and get both 'Die Fullback and
Print Sprint on one disk, $39.95

WarpCare Warranty.

All Warp Nine products are covered by a 90
day factory warranty. If at any time your drive
fails while under warranty, simply call us,
return it and we will send you a brand new
unit immediately. A full one year warranty is
available for all Warp products. Ask us about it*

30 Days To Love It.

We are so confident that you will love your
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fora full refund.

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Call us toll free* We'll be happy to answer
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1751 W Coani_v ted B, Suite 107*
St. Paul Minnesota 55113

* PLUS FOR T ADA PTER FOR YOUR MACINTOSH 5I2K * The Warp Nine PlusPort adapter puts a Mac Plus type SCSI port on the
back of your Mac 512K. It is included with each 512K price . This adapter allows you to connect our SCSI hard drive and tape back up
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AD INDEX

PAGE # ADVERTISER, READER SERVICE *

A

48. , Abaton, 46

176.. Advanced A.I. Systems, Inc„ 22

123.. Advanced Logic Systems, lnc. p 241

27.. ,. Ann Arbor Softwares Inc,, 34

14L. Ann Arbor Saftworks Inc., 28

73.. . AST Research, Inc., 214

171., Avery, 138

s

45, ♦..... h , Batteries Included, 142

79.. fc ,,. t , * Batteries Included, 51

170 . Bay Systems, 102

18.... Best Computer Supplies, 31

171 .. * Bible Research Systems, 97

C2 & 1.Borland International, 128

*26,. Bravo Technologies, Inc., 234

*27...,- Bree Communications lnc.,72

c

38.. Gamde Corp., 147

*21. Cauzln Systems, Inc* 1 5 1

174, . Central Point Software Inc., 105

175, . Central Point Software Inc., 141

12-13,— ... Centrum Systems West, 11
*20.. Century Software. 155

145.. ...... Cognition Technology Corp., 84

42.. -- CompuServe, 208

10-+ ,, Computer Cover Co.. 202

139,.... CompuCover Co., 92

170.. Computer Friends. 200

4, .... Cortland Computer, 198

24-- -- Cricket Software. 132

25^.Cricket Software, 134

D

*29,. DamSpace Qwp., 45

132. Data Tailor, 103

164.. ..... Daw Whiz, 146

169. Desktop Software Center. 48

146... Diehl Graphsoft Inc,, 242

14. Dove Computer Coip., 24

163,. Software. Inc., 176

132.. ...... Dubl-Qick Software. Inc,, 10S

E

176--- EDO Communications , 57

179. Enabling Technologies. Inc,, NA

22. Execucom. 26

F

33,-- Forethought, fate., 225

146, Format Software, Inc., 239

G

1W-.* GDT Softwares Inc, 13

20-21. General Computer Carp., 81

153. Great Wave Software, 113

148.. ...... Greene Johnson bio,, 44

PAGE # ADVERTISER, READER SERVICE *

165... icom Simulations. Inc.. 123

17L t *. Ideaform Inc,, 125

34-35.. Infocora* 96

*32.. Infosphere, Inc., 110

129,.. Innovative Data Design, Inc., 129

*17.. Internet, 73

J

117,.. j asmiite Computer Systems Inc,, 53

K

G3. Kensington Microwatt, 144

L

126. Leisamenic, 83

19,. Living Videotext, 245

*2-3.. Lotus Development, Corp., NA

155.. MACsjine, NA

63.----- MacCoraiection, NA

64-67. MacCormectioii, 82

131. MacDooor Electronics, 162

26. MacMaster,S9

38... MacMemory InC„ 115

39 ...- MacMemory Inc., 116

17.. Mac Rentals, 152

160.. . MacStore, Inc., 165

151. Mansfield Systems, 11E

78. Manx Software Systems, 194

57. Maxell Corp of America, 61

172— + Meta Software, 268

153,--- Micro Analyst Inc,. 143

6-7,.. Microsoft Corp., NA

160.. .... + . Microstore, 243

52 & 147, *.. MSndscape, Inc., NA

142-143..... Mindwrite,78

121.. ..... Mirror Technologies, Inc., 184

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contribution or a postcard if you find New
Scrapbook 2.0 useful, well worth it for
anyone that uses the standard Scrapbook
and wishes it were better Tim's address
appears in the desk accessory's opening
screen. Note: this desk accessory only
works with the newer 128K ROMs in the
512K Enhanced and Mac Plus,

We'd like to know how you are using
these strips (if you are!), how you like the
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what you'd like to see us publish in strip
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utilities? Standalone applications or source
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SOFTWARE ON PAPER
y IT’S HERE NOW WITH A
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Here is your chance to join the Softstrip™
revolution with the lowest-priced package
deal yet available for this system that has
the software and publishing industries doing
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What is Softstrip™?

In case you re one of the few Mari mosh
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Softstrip System, in effect, replaces the
floppy disk with paper. The centerpiece of
the system is the Cauzin Softstrip™ reader
— a compact (3" x 16") optical scanner that
reads data strips L printed on regular paper
Each data strip is about Vi" wide and up to
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machine readable form.

The system uses a concept similar to
supermarket bar codes, except it can store
or retrieve much more data per primed
page One 8 Vi* x I" sheet of paper can
hold as much as 44K of information. And
you can create your own data strips with a
dot matrix or laser primer, or a priming
press (as so many publications are
beginning to do right now)

What can it mean for you?

Just as the floppy disk expanded software
and data distribution beyond anyone s
dreams. Softstrip now offers the next great
leap forward. Anything you can put on a
disk you can put on a Softstrip data strip:
information, software programs, video ggmes,
sheet music ... the list is virtually endless.

And there is no limit to the kinds of files that can be stored on a data strip: text, binary.
ASCII, graphics, sound, BASIC. Assembly Language and more, Any combination of files
can be stored on a data strip (or group of data strips).

Who is already using Softstrip™?

[took and magazine publishers are turhing to Softstrip in ever increasing numbers to bring
their readers program material right from the printed page. Software publishers can let
you sample their latest programs on inexpensive, easy to produce printed pages as well,
Product presentations, promotional literature, even lengthy instructions, can be produced
in extremely limited spare. And educational material, from teacher manuals to lext books
are being provided on Softs trips to give new impetus to computer aided instruction.

User groups now offer their members a tow cost alternative to disk copying and program
sharing. With the Softstrip Systems ability to use the same material on different
computers, media incompatibility is no longer a problem. Businesses can update prices
and catalogs inexpensively and quickly. Time sensitive data can be distributed faster and
more accurately than ever before Archival data can be linked with any computer, then
stored on paper, in file cabinets!

What do the professionals say?

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Softstrip System unanimous raves. Here
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'Last timeout, when we visited
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programs in strip form. The system
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ACCESSORIES

MACDPENER u

The finest one piece tool to open Ihe Macintosh
case. Do your own upgrades, installations, ad¬
justments, and repairs. No moving parts. One
year warranty parts and workmanship. Suggest¬
ed list SI9.95 4 $3 shipping and handling.
Dealer inquiries welcome
• Central Products Corp.

2211 Norfolk, Suite 518
Houston, TX 77098
(713) 529-1080

KRAFT MAC STICK

QUICKSTICK- for Mac users. It's a joystick, but
flick a switch, and QUICKSTICK is a mouse,
compatible with all Macintosh mouse software.
Joystick or mouse, QUICKSTICK is two controls
in one. For information on Kraft joysticks and
computer peripherals for Apple and IBM comput¬
ers, write:

• Kraft Systems, Inc.

450 W California Avenue
Vista, CA. 92083
(619) 724-7146

MOUSE-HIDE" 1 , THE RELIABLE PAD

The real leather mouse pad. The Mouse-Hide™
keeps your mouse working. Won t jam your
mouse with nylon debris. Won't wear out or fray
with normal use. The leather permits a more
natural glide. Belter traction than any other pad.
Looks elegant Only $15 + $2 S.&H. California
residents add 98 £ tax,

• Pilot Enterprises, Inc.

5699 Kanan Road
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
(818) 706-1818

BARCODE

BARCODE/MAG STRIPE READERS

Barcode and magnetic stripe (credit card) readers
ttor the Apple Macintosh are available separately
or in a single compact unit. All readers connect
between the keyboard and the Macintosh, and
require no additional software or port. A powerful
but simple program for printing Code 39 bar
codes is also available.

• TPS Electronics
4047 Transport Street
Palo Alto, CA 94303
(415) 856-6833

BUSINESS

MACAID 1040+ FOR ’86

Improved from 85. Easy, low cost preparation of
federal/selected tax with Multiplao/Excel, Calcu¬
lates taxes, depreciation, ITC from tables/sche¬
dules. Includes 25+ schedules, high usage
forms, and worksheets. Print IRS schedules-
/forms (2-pass for 1040A/B). Help files, imbed¬
ded instructions, revised 86 manual. Ship Janu¬
ary 1, 1987, $39,95 (Dec/Jan discount $10).
Visa/MC,

• Common Sense Software, Inc,

12 Whitehall Court

Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
(312) 541-5200/(MCI) 285-4711

FINANCIAL DECISIONS

Gen Micron ics, the financial analysis software
leader, provides powerful analytical tools-a must
acquisition for all Excel r “ owners involved with
commercial, consumer, real estate, and mort¬
gage banking-lenders, borrowers, savers, and
investors alike. Complex AT cash flows, mort¬
gage schedules, and much more. Requires Ex¬
cel™, A best buy at U.S, $45 check.

• GenMicronics

5900 Shore Blvd. t #401
St. Petersburg, FL 33707
(813) 345-5020

FULL-FEATURED ACCOUNTING

Business Consultant™ Series- GL, accounts re-
ceiva ble/paya b le, i nvento ry, p erson n el/pay rol I,
job costing, order entry, P.O., passwords. Multi*
users upgradeable, double-entry, pre-defined-
/customizable reports. Handles 15Q+ megabytes
data! $44 (will be $349) per module for first
5,000 copies of Series sold. Free brochure. $10
demo. 30 days refundable with actual product.
* IBNC

1919 E. Romneya, Suite 317
Anaheim, CA 92805

{714) 635-7825 or (714) 533-9837 Ext. 43

GUIDE: HI-TECH CONSULTING

New step-by-step, how-fo information book;
getting started, career building, hardware and
software job sources. Part/fulltime, career
change, moonlight. Contracts, taxes, client/job
shop/recruiter negotiating techniques. Busioess-
/finance. engineering, scientific. Author strate¬
gies raises wages! $16 95 + $3 postage.

• Madden Associates, Dept. M
2039-F Civic Center Drive
North Las Vegas, NV 89030

EZTAX-PREP ’87

Excel or Multiplan users-fast, easy, accurate tax
preparation. Highly rated, excellent documenta¬
tion, thousands in use. Has 23 schedules includ¬
ing depreciation, AMT and income averaging.
Prepares and prints IRS-ready '86 returns. Spec¬
ify machine and Excel or Mulltpfan. $99.95 + $3
5/H, Call for free information or Visa/MC/Amex
orders.

• EZWare Corporation
P,Q. Box 620 Dept, U
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
(800) 543-1040 Of (215) 667-4064 in PA

CLEARINGHOUSE

EXCELLENT EXCHANGE

The clearinghouse lor Excel™ authors and users.
200+ tutorials, templates, macros, and vertical
applications. Range S2-S100: average $10, Us*
ers receive well-written, author supported pro¬
grams. Authors receive royalties while Excellent
Exchange handles all details. Current catalog and
sample disk with 15+ programs and demos is
$4, Check it out!

• Heizer Software

5120 Coral Court, Suite 102
Concord, CA 94521
{4151 827-9013

COMMUNICATIONS

MAC-3000 TERMINAL EMULATOR

MAC-3000 provides users with ful! terminal
emulation of a Hewlett-Packard 2624A Block
Mode Terminal, Features also include Master*
minal compatibility for the IBM3278 and DEC
VT102 terminals. Additional features are key
equivalents for HP screen commands, fife trans¬
fers, extended screen memory, mouse oriented
cursor positioning and more. Retail price: £99.00
• International Computer Consultants
1311 Clegg Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
(707) 765*9200

COMPUTER FURNITURE

MOBILE MAC WORKSTATIONS

New Mac model of the Mobile-Station series of
computer workstations will allow the full Mac
system, with printer, to he moved into place
alongside your desk, or rolled from room to
room. Small 24W x 24D size is ideal for tight
work areas. Calf or write for catalog and more
information.

• Micraland Furniture Co., tnc,

11 Madrone Avenue
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415) 485-9758

184MACU SER JANUAR Y 198 7

CONSULTING SERVICES

MARKETING & COMMUNICATION

Kottwitz & Associates specializes in the Macin¬
tosh market: Trade shows, events, press cam¬
paigns, market research, and documentation.
We use the Mac and understand the market
you’re trying to reach. We’ve organized the
itoicUser trade show representation and authored
The Power User's Manual, Call us todayl We'll
help you make a lasting impression.

• Kottwitz & Associates
27 Peaslee Road
Merrimack, NH 03054
(603) 889-4800

DESKTOP PUBLISHING

MAC-ART LIBRARY

Illustrate your DTP ideas with the Mac-Art Li¬
brary. Eleven disks full of professional MacPaint
i mag es: An i mals .Buildings, Farm Life, Flo we is/-
Trees/Plants, Geography, Greeting Cards,
Kitchen, Signs/SymboIs/Borders, Sports, Tools,
Transportation. Single disks: $39.95. Complete
library: $250 Variety Pak (single disk sampler):
$49.95. Add $3.00 for shipping/handling.

• CompuCraft
P,0. Box 3155
Englewood, CO 80155
(303) 850-7472

MACPALETTE

MacPalette by Microspot enables you to print
multicolored pictures and text from existing
Macintosh software using the I mage Writer 11.
MacPalette will colorprint your existing docu¬
ments from MacDraw, MacDraft, Mac Project,
MacWrite, JAZZ, Microsoft Chart, Word, etc.
(not MacPaint), It now prints black as a true
black instead of mixing a black.

• CompServCo
800 Freedom Lane
Slidell, LA 70458
(800) £72-5533 or (504) 649-0484

DESKTOP PUBLISHING SERVICES

TYPESETTING FOR THE MACINTOSH

Alphabet Soup is the desktop publishing resource
for high quality type and graphics from your
Macintosh. We offer Linptronic 100 (1270 dpi)
and LaserWriter (300 dpi) output. Your files can
be sent to us by mail or by modem. Call Alphabet
Soup for more information and a brochure today!
• Alphabet Soup, Inc.

2822 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 885-3156

LASER PRINTING SERVICES

Linotype LI 00 output $6/page (volume discounts
available) from Mac/IBM disks. LaserWriter $1
per page. One day return in most cases. Modem
service available. In house offset & bindery
services available at low, low prices. SCSI hard
drives at the lowest prices (LoDown 20 Meg at
$694; Mirror 20 Meg $1088).

• Laser Printing Services
26058 W. 12 Mile Road
Southfield, Ml 48034
(800) 722-3475

EDUCATIONAL

NEED HELP STUDYING?

Learning Tool™ is designed to help you study.
Learning tool™ uses the principles of cognitive
psychology to help you learn any subject, from
philosophy to engineering. Learning Tool™ is an
electronic notebook that helps you organize class
notes, study for exams, write term papers, and
more. 512K, $50, Visa/MC,

• Arborworks, Inc,

2540 Pittsfield Blvd.

Ann Arbor, Ml 48104
(313) 973-0612

POWERMATH

PowerMath is computer algebra for the Macin¬
tosh. Type your problem, using conventional
math notation, and PowerMath will solve your
calculus, algebra, and matrix problems. Power-
Math does factorials, summations, simultaneous
equations, plots, Taylor series, trigonometry,
and allows unlimited number size, lt h s your math
slave for SI 00,

• Central Products Corp,

2211 Norfolk, Suite 518
Houston, IX 77098
(713) 529-1080

GRADEBOOK/TEST GENERATION

Micro grade-easy course set-up, large class size,
100 assignments. Prints statistics and various
reports. Personalized grade standards, ideal any
grade level. Microtest II- create, update generate
and store exam materials. Easy question entry,
large data-base, multiple test versions with se¬
parate answer keys. $95 each. Free brochures.
$5 demo programs,

• Chariot Software Group
3659 India Street MU#1
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 298-0202

CONCEPTS ATLAS

Puts a three-dimensional globe on the screen.
Display any view, enlarge or reduce it, call up
facts about every country and major city in the
world, find the distance between any two points,
label cities, print maps with MacPaint. Price:
$49.95. A Teacher's Guide is available for $4,95

• Software Concepts
P.G. Sox 620
Brooklyn, NY 11215

ENGINEERING

DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN AID

LogicWorks is an interactive digital logic drawing
and simulation package for the Macintosh. Fea¬
turing built-in common gates, flip-flops, 3-state
devices, etc. User-definable symbols, PROMs
and PLAs, Generates timing diagram of selected
signals. Prints schematic or timing diagram.
LogicWorks $159,95, net list utility $29.95.
Libraries disk, including analog, 7400s, $29.95.
• Capilano Computing
545-108th NE, Suite 6
Bellevue, WA 98004-5502
(604) 669-6343

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Analysis programs, design aids, structure, load,
tension, shear, moment, deflected shape dia¬
grams; input, output texts; section table, more.
Full Macintosh interface. Compiled. Frame-Mac
(2-D frames, trusses, beams; Mac Draw-1 ike in¬
terface) $495; BEAM AC II (continuous, simple
beams) $295; BEAMAC (simple beams) $95.
Money-back guarantee. Free support. Any demo
$ 10 ,

• Erez Anzel

5800 Arlington Avenue, #5T
Riverdale, NY 10471

(212) 884-5798

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

MSC/ pal for 3-0 static and dynamic analysis of
structures comprised of beams, plates, springs,
masses. Plane strain/stress elements, with con¬
centrated, gravity, and pressure loads, 3-D
graphics include undefcrmed/deformed overlays,
deformed animation,-and XY plots. Executable
demo with full documentation $45. See our ad in
the December issue.

• The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation
815 Colorado Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90041

(213) 259-3888

FONTS

FLUENT LASER FONTS

Volume 1 through 6 are shipping. Add to your
LaserWriter with high quality postscript fonts,
reasonably priced. Automatic downloading, print
any size, compatibility with PageMaker 1.2,
support of Western European & Scandinavian
languages. Write or call tor samples. Order: (800)
331-4321 In Calif: (800) 851-1986,

• Casady Company
P.0. Box 223779
Carmel, CA 93922
(408) 646-4660

DOWNLOADABLE LASER FONTS

Specialized fonts for the LaserWriter. Classical
Greek, $85. Serif/sans-serif for scientific texts,
$75. Font of 100 chemical structures, $125 (with
scientific text fonts, $160). Polish serif or sans-
serif, $85 each (four styles). Serif small caps,
$40 (four styles), regular or Polish. Soon:
modern Greek, Visa/MC, university PQ's.

• Allotype Typographies
1600 Packard Road. Suite 5
Ann Arbor, Ml 48104
(313) 663-1989

“FONTagenix & LASERgenix"

FONTagenix™; Four volumes of dot-matrix dis¬
play fonts, $29.50 each volume (all four
$99.50). FOREIGN FONTS EDITION™: 22 foreign
language fonts on disk, only $49.50. LASER-
genix™: Downloadable laser printer fonts, only
$32.50 each, (Add $3 shipping/handling, CA res.
add 6%), Write for samples or order at:

• Oevontan International Software
P.Q. Box 2351
Montclair, CA 91763
(714) 621-0973

JANUARY 1 9 B 7 M A C U S E R 185

USE

WORKFONTS 3.0- DRAFTFONTS

Clean, simple fonts that read quickly and print
welt, suitable for manuscripts and publishing.
Plain lined, Seriffed, Non-proportional and new
Draft fonts that allow draft mode printing without
the usual spacing problems. 3 disk set, 132
fonts, 197 characters per font. $49.95 includes
shipping.

• Font Workshop
MU Box 3306
Oak Brook, IL 60522

THE INTERNATIONAL FONTS “

The best foreign language fonts for the Mac.
Roman font improves typing in any foreign
language. Handles Polish, Icelandic, Romanian,
Vietnamese, over 100 more, Greek font; com¬
plete classical and modem. Cyrillic font. Russian
(including pre-revolutionary), Ukrainian, Serbo-
Croatian, dozens more. Phonetic font, I PA tran¬
scriptions. Four fonts and manuals, $21.75,

• Prof. Paul Rapoport
7 Cradock Court

An caster, Ontario, Canada LOG 325

GAMES/ENTERTAINMENT

IT'S HERE AT LAST!

Challenging, exciting games from around the
world for the Macintosh Stakes are high at the
casino where BLACKJACK and RUOLETTE create
millionaires. Try your luck in a mean card game
at the SALOON. Test your mind playing CONCEN¬
TRATION, All 4 games for one low price. Send
$24.95 (postage included) to;

• Games Galore Software-MUl
P.0, Box 1145
Spring, TX 77383

GRAPHICS

MGMSTATION-CAD DRAFTING

MGMStation - CAD Drafting by Micro CAD/CAM,
Inc,, is powerful, easy to use CAD program for
Mac similar in performance to Auto cad for IBM-
PC. MGMStation boasts over 140 powerful func¬
tions including; XV coordinate, polar or digital
data input; 100X zoom; accuracy to 4 decimals,
etc. Demo disk/VCR tape available - $799.
• CompServCo
800 Freedom Lane
Slidell, LA 70458
(800) 272-5533 or (504) 649-0484

MACFLGT & MACGAD

MacPIot. by Microspot is a powerful plotter driver
which will plot any object oriented graphics
produced 1 on Mac in up to 30 colors/pens, It
supports over 45 plotters, MacCAD is a series of
12 separate architectural and engineering tem¬
plate libraries for use with either MacDraw or
MacDraft (specify which).

• CompServCo
800 Freedom Lane
Slidell, LA 70458
(800) 272-5533 or (504) 649-0484

GRAPHICS PLOTTING SERVICE

Architectural, engineering, mechanical, and
graphics drawings plotted up to ,+ E" size (36‘x
48") with full range of media, pen types and
colors for high quality plots (from HP 7585B).
Users of MacDraw, MacDraft, MacPaint, E-Z
Draft, etc. can gain exceptional professional
graphics output for a reasonable price. Send for
information and pricing.

• Data Plot

1426 37th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98112
(206) 324-4027

pLOT-rr

Plots MacDraw, MacDraft, MacProject, Mac¬
Paint, etc. on popular Apple, Hewlett Packard, or
Houston Instruments pen plotters in sizes A, B,
C, D, and E, Use for accurate engineering and
architectural drawings or color data plots. Flexi¬
ble color interface and scaling. $125.

• Mesa Graphics
P.O. Box 600
Los Alamos, NM 87544
(505) 672-1998

TEKALIKE

A VT1Q0 and Tektronix terminal emulator for text
and graphics; emulates text terminals (VT100,
VT640, Tektronix 4105} and/or graphic terminals
(Tektronix 4006, 4010, 4012, 4014, 4016, 4105,
and the VT640). Compatible with screen editors.
Supports LaserWriter, plotters, MacDraw, and
MacPaint output: desktop publishing compatible,
$250,

• Mesa Graphics
P,0. Box 600
Los Alamos, NM 87544
(505) 672-1998

PRISM * COLOR SYSTEM $590

Display any Macintosh graphic in full color and
high resolution! (512 x 415 pixel with a palette of
4096 colors). The Prism 1- color graphics inter¬
face attaches to either Mac/Mac + serial port
and drives RGB or NTSC color monitors. Color
video and slide presentation graphics are a snap.
Monitors are available.

• Micro Conversions, Inc.

1900 E. Randol Mill Road, Suite 103

Arlington, Tx 76011

(800) 237-8622, in TX (817) 860-2291

INSURANCE

SAFEWARE INSURANCE

If your computer is important to you, insure it!
SAFEWARE provides full replacement of hard¬
ware, media, and purchased software. As little as
$39 a year covers fire, theft, power surge,
earthquake, water damage, and auto accident.
Call Sam to 8pm Monday thru Friday, Saturday
9am to 5pm.

• Safeware, The Insurance Agency, inc.

2929 N. High Street, P.O. Box 02211

Columbus, OH 43202

(614) 262-0559 (OH), (800) 848-3469 (NAT)

INVESTMENT SOFTWARE

MARKET PRO “

The first fully integrated Portfolio Management
System for Macintosh. Portfolio Manager, Tech¬
nical Analysis, and Fundamental Analysis. P.M.-
ten detailed reports. Access 17,000 + stocks
plus mutual funds, indexes, and bonds for T.A.;
F.A, 11,000 + companies via I.P. Sharp data¬
base. Works with Laser Writer. $395, (Ind,
mo d u I es $ 195. C o m mo d ities packag e avai labl e).
• Pro Plus Software, Inc.

2830 E, Brown Road, Suite C-12
Mesa, AZ 85203
(800) 992-2919

LANGUAGES/LANGUAGE TOOLS

NATIVE CODE MODULA-2

MacMeth 2.0, the fastest Macintosh Modula-2
development system. Compiles up to 3000 LPM.
Development cycle is shortened with integrated
editor, linking loader, and symbolic source de¬
bugger, Includes source to toolbox interface and
some libraries. Enjoy the elegance of Modula-2
with the speed and power of high priced C
packages! $100.

• Modula Corporation
1673 West 820 North
Provo, UT 84601
(801) 375-7400

POWER WITH MASTERFORTH

MasterForth provides a complete programming
environment for the Macintosh, including a
68000 macro-assembler and support for the
mouse, the finder, menus, and the graphics
toolbox. The string package and resident debug¬
ger are standard features. Programs can be
optimized with the optional target compiler.
Call/write for Information.

• Micro Motion

8726 S. Sepulveda Boulevard, #A171
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(213) 821-4340

PASCAL EXTENDER/C EXTENDER

Compiled library routines for programming Mac
interface saves hours of development time.
Menus, windows, scrollbars, dialogs, desk ac*
cessory support, graphics, printing T text editing,
zooming, data I/O, Fast, flexible, modifiable,
compiler specific. Upgraded version 2.0 available
for Lightspeed C, Aztec C at $129.95, and
Lightspeed Pascal, TML Pascal at $89.95.

• Invention Software Corporation
P.O. Box 3168
Ann Arbor, Ml 48106
(313) 996-8108

MACFORTH PLUS

New, multi-tasking language and 32-bit operating
environment. Includes turnkey compiler, assem¬
bler, new text editor, and switcher compatibility.
Faster implementation designed to take advan¬
tage of Mac Plus features and compatible across
popular micros-Atari ST and Amiga, Upgrade
from L2 MacForth-$49, or new $299. Compu¬
Serve net GO FORTH,

• Creative Solutions, Inc.

4701 Randolph Road, Suite 12

Rockville, MD 20852

(800) FORTH-OK or (301) 984-0262

1S6MACUSER JANUARY 1987

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

WATERLOO MACJANET

A network for Apple Macintosh's designed by
educators for educators, Waterloo MacJanet
creates an interactive classroom network using
Macintosh workstations connected via AppleTalk.
Waterloo MacJanet features ease of administra¬
tion, standard Macintosh user interlace, secure
file-sharing, and spooled print to the
LaserWriter.

• WATC0M Products, Inc.

415 Phillip Street

Waterloo. Ontario, Canada N2L 3X2
(519) 836-3700 Telex 06955458

MAIL ORDER

PERSONAL SOFTWARE SERVICE

Constantly updated broad Macintosh selection,
Prompt, personalized, hassle tree service at
competitive prices. No ' Backorder" or "Wait¬
lists". Your payment accepted onfy when order
shipped. School and Corporate purchase orders
welcome, net in 30 days. Hours 9-5 Mon-Fri and
8-12 Sat. Pdt. Free price list.

• Pacific Prime Trading
2522 Artesia Boulevard
Redondo Beach. CA 90278
(213) 376-5820

MEDICAL/DENTAL

MEDICAL & DENTAL MANAGEMENT

Solo or multi-practitioner office includes patient
(responsible party) billing, recall, paper/elec¬
tronic claims, aging, collections, SuperBill, la¬
bels, diagnostic history, Word/MacWrite, audit
& productivity reports. 24hr Support. 512k +
Hard Disk or XL. Mac Office Demo from $100.
Amex/MCA/isa. 2,400+ dealers.

• CMA Micro Computer Division
55888 Yucca Trail, P0 Box 2080
Yucca Valley. CA 92286-2080
(619) 365-9718

NETWORKING HARDWARE

SUNOL SYSTEMS FILE SERVER

Sunol Systems SUN*MUF$ (Multi User File
Server), total Appletalk compatible file server for
Macintosh. $UN*MUFS allows multiple users to
access same file simultaneously, providing inex¬
pensive solution to networking your Macintosh
environment. SUN‘STREAK model features SCSI
interface for Macintosh. SUN‘DISK model net¬
works Apple, IBM, EPSON, Zenith, etc.

• Sunol Systems, Inc.

1177 Quarry Lane
Pleasanton, CA 94566
(415) 484-3322

PHONENET CONNECTOR

AppleTalk compatible network hardware can use
existing telephone wires to create 3000 foot
AppleTalk networks, PhoneNET uses positive
locking modular telephone components and stan¬
dard telephone wire allowing for flexible installa¬
tion of permanent, reliable AppleTalk networks.
Also; AppleTalk repeater, star cluster controller,
and network testing and management software.
• Farallon Computing
1442A Walnut, Suite 64
Berkely, CA 94709
(415) 849-2331

(RECTORY

PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE

MAC SOFTWARE $5.00

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Cardiff, CA 92007
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• MacKey Mouse Club
P.O. Box 4561-A
Lincoln, NE 68504
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REAL ESTATE

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CLR ANOVA

Analysis of Variance program that can compute
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Design Is an intellectual tool for managing com¬
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55 Wheeler Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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MAC^QN / EQUATION PROCESSOR

MacSqn is a desk accessory equation processor
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New York, NY 10012-0132

(212) 674-5195

JANUARY 1987 MACUSEft 187

DEVIL’S ADVOCATE

by John C. Dvorak

APPLE NEEDS
A GURU

I t was at the Plaza Hotel in New York
City. Apple Computers rolled out its
new advertising campaign. To entice
the media and analyst types, Apple had
sent a fancy invitation in a 35mm film
can.

This event was a big deal because
Apple had dropped creative force ad
agency Chi at/Day in favor of a big-time
New York agency, BBD&O — the same
agency that Sculley used when he was at
Pcpsico.

The rumors flew. Some said that Ap¬
ple felt Chiat was simply too small for
Apple now that Apple was beyond the 2
billion dollar sales range. Others felt ir
w r as just the old boy network taking
over. After all, Chi at/Day was Steve’s”
agency.

The most curious of the observations
came from Sculley himself He told me
that Chiat did a remarkable job with its
print campaign, but wasn’t as good with
TV as BBD&O. I found this an ironic
observation since the Chiat TV ads (such
as the legendary Macintosh 1984 ad)
were fantastic, A few days later I saw a
tape of Chiar ads including some for
Mitsubishi and other accounts. I found
them all engrossing. I noticed one thing,
though. The ads had a science fiction and
sometimes surreal quality. I assume that
Sculley and the boys think that this kind
of stuff is too weird for the bedazzled
businessman.

It was the businessman as dullard, 1
figured, who was the target of the new
campaign. Chiat couldn’t sell to him.

The agency had tried before and failed
with the Lisa. It failed with the Mac. So
the thinking goes.

But did it fail? If anything, the old TV
ads did their job to the nth degree. It was
the print ads so cherished by Sculley that
failed. The Test Drive a Mac” campaign
and promotion (in which you went into
a store and “borrowed” a Mac) was a
fiasco. Nobody showed up. The ads
promoting the idea were unclear and
unfocused. Apple also bought a special
edition of Newsweek once to promote the
Mac. Every ad slot was bought by Apple,
This had to be the biggest waste of
money in the company’s history.

But Apple is so convinced of the
invincibility of the Chiat print campaigns
that it had BBD&O haul ad superstar
Steve Hayden out of the dutches of
Chiat and into the big time with big
bucks. One rumor had it that this only
happened because Sculley was unim¬
pressed (to be polite) with the BBD&O
print campaign shown him. Sculley more
or less confirmed this when I asked him
about it.

But, to me, the signal that Apple is
going the route of the button-down and
boring was the lackluster presentation at
the Plaza. We all expected some sort of
show-biz pizzazz to open the show.
Nope. Sculley wasn’t even announced.
He just walked up on stage and started
talking. Without his tekprompters, he
stumbled and stuttered his way through
a genuinely boring speech that lasted too
long. It scented that something was
bothering him. Surely it wasn’t the earn¬
ings report that had Apple on a roll.
(Later I noticed “Apple on a Roll” at a
sidewalk stand in Times Square.)

To make matters worse, Sculley wore
the most gosh-awful attire imaginable.
Get this: he sported an ill-fitting blue
blazer, striped shirt, a red and blue
regimental iic^rem corduroy pants with
cuffs, and brown shoes* It was enough to
make vou wonder what he does with the

$2 million a year he gets to sit in die
CEO chair and say “Uh, huh” and “We’ll
look into it.”

The whole scene, to rnc, confirms my
suspicion that the old days arc over once
and for all* Apple is simply losing its
charisma, and if Sculley and the old boy
network doesn’t get its act together the
company is going to lose its “the rest of
us” image that is critical to die long-term
survival of the company.

I, like many other professional cynr:s,
ridicule the company for such images, it
is pretty fonny. I also know how im por-
tant it is to maintain that image. Let’s
face it: nobody wants to identify with
the button-down gray gray gray world of
the IBM. Why don’t we just shoot
ourselves? If Apple keeps up its death
march toward the dull and boring there
will be no alternative.

I recently spoke at an Apple event and
had a conversation with some Apple
executives. Ex-Apple project manager
and software guru Trip Hawkins was
there. Hawkins and I both agreed that
Apple’s refusal to reinstitute a symbolic
figure as a spokesman is a mistake. I
think it is the beginning of the end.
Unless Sculley is out and about in his
dubious clothes, all the public gets is
carefully crafted quotes from the PR
department* Specifically Barbara Krause.

Barb is the best mouthpiece Apple has
ever had (the others have been less than
sincere). But so what? The public needs a
guru, a Jobs, a Wozniak — someone
who talks in terms of ideas, not defensive
and dry facts* Sculley refuses to do it.

I have a suggestion. Find Andy Hertz-
fold and make him the Apple spokesman
and guru* If you know much about
Apple, then you know about Andy. He
made Switcher and Servant and lots of
other stuff. He’s a former employee and
still associated with the company. Fur¬
thermore, Andy is full of enthusiasm, full
of ideas, full of company pride* In short,
Andy is full of it. Perfect! Perfect as the
Apple company spokesman* Let’s face it,
he’d be a perfect cover boy on Newsweek
or Time * I can see the bold headline
now: Andy Hcrtzfeld — Genius or Fa¬
natic?

While Andy thinks I’m a jerk because
I’m not enamored of his buddy “Steve,”
Pm rather sincere about this idea. He’s
the last chance Apple has to regain its
credibility as the computer company for
the “rest of us.” Every great computer
company needs a guru, a bean counter
and a hot operations chief. Apple lias
everything but the guru*

It’s ironic, A few years ago It had
nothing but gurus.

188 M A C U S E ft JANUARY 19 8 7

BOB ZIMMERMAN

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